| They need to get economies of scale. Simply put, if there were MORE companies offering access to part of the BACKBONE at deep discount prices, this would not be a problem. It's the same as in the days of $30 to send a telegram across the ocean back in the 1800's and they charged by the WORD. There need to be providers that can do the job cheaper and offer more bandwidth with MEGA fiber channels of THOUSANDS of terabits at pennies per terabyte... not thousands as they are today!
This is the industry's problem to work out and unfortunatley, since we have a percieved US against THEM mentality about it all (telco, vs cableco vs satellite, vs international partners), this won't happen overnight.
It will take a LOOONG time.
Don't forget, its orders of magnitude easier to wire a country like Japan, or the UK, or Netherlands, or Korea than one like U.S.A. So, provided there isn't WWIII with Iran in the next 20 years it will all work itself out. |
