Comcast XFINITY → Re: What do you think will be needed in bandwidth in 5 years?

how about like this:
"15% of the total amount of bandwidth you could use in a month"
you could increase the percentage over time
i.e.
50/10 Mb/s tier would get: 2.5 TB
22/5 Mb/s tier would get: 1 TB
16/2 Mb/s tier would get: .75 TB
12/2 Mb/s tier would get: .5 TB
8/2 Mb/s tier would get: .35 TB
6/1 Mb/s tier would get: .25 TB

What cost per GB or 10GB would you pay?

What does comcast pay for 1GB of data transfer?

It would be great to know but I am sure it is some kind proprietary info.

Let's look at Amazon Ec2 transport costs (why not?)
from »aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

Internet Data Transfer

The pricing below is based on data transferred "in" and "out" of Amazon EC2.
Data Transfer In
All Data Transfer $0.10 per GB

Data Transfer Out
First 10 TB per Month $0.17 per GB
Next 40 TB per Month $0.13 per GB
Next 100TB per Month $0.11 per GB
Over 150 TB per Month $0.10 per GB

So, you're looking at 10 cents per GB to 17 cents per GB. 250GB is $25-$42.50 depending on the in/out mix - call it $35 on average.

That's probably a bit more then the carry cost for Amazon (ie, they make a buck )

Using a hosting service like Godaddy, you'll get 300GB/mo for your $5/mo web site. That's pretty cheap. Want cheaper? inmotionhosting.com gives you 1TB/mo on their cheap personal hosting plan.

This show you that the cost is associated more with the customer side then the backhaul - apparently backhaul is nearly free.

Funny Aside... »www.isp-planet.com/busin ··· g3a.html - in 1999 using a T1 full out would cost you $4/GB! Your 250GB allotment from comcast would be the same as using a full T1 for 35 days, or $1000.

Inmotionhosting.com = $7/mo for unlimited bandwidth and disk space!

Nice, but bandwidth is only free after you get out of a neighborhood. *all* (essentially) of comcasts costs are NOT backhaul.