 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | CEO: $1-$2 per GB only way to stay profitable... Well then perhaps they should not be in business. Incompetant people should be working for others not trying to run their own business. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| Calculating the GB figure out for overages, you arrive at a whopping $648 per megabit of symmetric transfer, a la T1. $972 if Frontier sold a full T1 at those rates. Except with the speeds people are getting on Frontier, they couldn't quite get that capability. $2 per GB? Make that $1296 per Mbit symmetric, or nearly $2000 for a T1's worth of transfer. Ripoff? Absolutely, considering that Frontier is paying probably $40 or less per megabit on their end. That's a markup of about 2500%, 5000% if you want $2 overages...in reality the cost per gigabyte, even on a high-quality network, could be around six cents in the quantities Frontier is buying at.
And to have the gall of charging for overages on a connection with an artifically limited speed...why not just let people max out the DSL lines at those rates? It's like offering only 50, 100, 150 and 200 minute cell phone plans with no night\weekend minutes, then charging 45 cents per minute for overages. Oh, right...we're talking about a telco here, who might actually do such a thing.
Quwestion: what DOES Frontier use for their backbone connectivity? Traceroutes ahoy! If they're using Cogent we're up to a colossal 5000-10000% markup on per-gig pricing. |
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 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21
1 edit | Whenever I run traceroutes, it always comes up with frontiernet.net which is their backbone, and then goes to other parties such as wvfiber.net (?) and I think Global Crossing. Definately Level3 though. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Comcast
| WVFiber is a 10GE backbone provider, see wvfiber.com. If Frontier can peer with them at three places, traffic is free, sounds like. They're probably relatively cheap anyway. Global Crossing is also inexpensive bandwidth. Level3 is probably just about average for costs... |
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Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 Reviews:
 ·Frontier Communi..
·Verizon Online DSL
| OK. I might be wrong with some of the providers. WVFiber I'm almost certain is one of their peering partners, and savvis.net is one of them (running a trace route to my relative's connection came up with that). Next time I'm at their house I'll run trace routes to see how many peers I can hit up. |
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