bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus | $7.50 CAD / GB.... Translates to about $6.63USD/GB...
There isn't a single provider, backbone or otherwise, that charges that much for a gigabyte of throughput anymore. The rate of $1.50CAD/GB (or $1.33USD/GB) is about right, and even then, that's a little on the high side now.
So, why the hell the HUGE ass price disparity between the three packages when it costs them the EXACT same amount for the bandwidth for the company, regardless of which service the customer uses?
Must be the idiot business majors who run the company...
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 pstewartPremium,VIP
join:2005-10-12
Peterborough, ON
kudos:1 | $1.33 a GB? Sorry, that's still incredibly high...
320 GB = 1 Mb/s of bandwidth last time I did the math .. if I'm wrong please tell me
So, that's $425 per Mb/s - umm... very high....
I realize any ISP that charges GB charges needs to turn a good margin but not that high in my opinion....
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bmn? ? ?Premium,ExMod 2003-06
join:2001-03-15
hiatus | said by pstewart:$1.33 a GB? Sorry, that's still incredibly high... I said as much... Its closer to what's right, but its still high, however, the numbers we're talking about here aren't wholesale rates; these are rates charged to end users... Wholesale rates are a different animal from what the end user will see ever. The problem here is that the prices are so far gone from the wholesale rates, its incredible.
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pstewartPremium,VIP
join:2005-10-12
Peterborough, ON
kudos:1 | Yeah you're right.. sorry, I misread your post ....
Even $2/GB is well within acceptable rates IMHO 
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 djdanskaRudie32Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
kudos:4
 ·Time Warner Cable
 ·T-Mobile US
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said by pstewart:$1.33 a GB? Sorry, that's still incredibly high... 320 GB = 1 Mb/s of bandwidth last time I did the math .. if I'm wrong please tell me So, that's $425 per Mb/s - umm... very high.... I realize any ISP that charges GB charges needs to turn a good margin but not that high in my opinion.... I thought it was high too. I get more data transfer from my web hosting provider! (2048000.00 MB a month)
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 pfakBow before me for I am rootPremium
join:2002-12-29
Vancouver, BC
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·Shaw
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said by pstewart:$1.33 a GB? Sorry, that's still incredibly high... 320 GB = 1 Mb/s of bandwidth last time I did the math .. if I'm wrong please tell me So, that's $425 per Mb/s - umm... very high.... I realize any ISP that charges GB charges needs to turn a good margin but not that high in my opinion.... That's insane, $425/Mbit..
I pay $75/Mbit with Internap.. which works out to $0.23/GB
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to bmn
Time to invest in BCE stock. |
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 andybPremium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario
kudos:1
·TekSavvy DSL
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Actually,an insider posted the internal memo and before a mod deleted it,The basics of it were "The market is getting flooded with high bandwith programs and vidio is getting popular etc etc so therfore we are bringing in caps...10% of customers are heavy users.. (yes it said 10% not the usual 1% most say) |
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