PaulTTU
join:2009-02-12
Cookeville, TN | reply to Nightfall
Re: the $400 million network? said by Nightfall:said by tdouglas22:said by astokes:Yeah but the Chinese government block so much content on the internet so its evens out really  That has more to do with the culture of the area, not price related at all. The government is regulating and paying for the the deployment of the broadband. That really factors into the price though. Especially in that area. Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region in China, and isn't influenced by the "great firewall." City Telecom is a publicly traded company, not government owned, and invested its own money to build its own fiber network and metro IP transit systems (2.6 bln HKD). Its subsidiaries also offer TV service and has multi-play packages.
For 119HKD (15 USD) you get 100Mbit internet and phone.
They also publish MRTG data »www.hkbn.net/mrtg/
»www.hkbn.net/bb1000/speed_guaran···Eng.html
The 80% guarantee applies to access to HKIX 2. The pay back double cannot exceed the monthly fee, and its based on days that the speed doesn't meet the requirement. Ex 1 day at 79% = Monthly Fee/30 x 2 credit.
They also have 99.99% network reliability pledge and latency specifications »www.hkbn.net/bb1000/cc_pledge.htm including a 30 second phone call answer 80% of the time.
Their global network:
»www.hkbn.net/oversea_web/overseae.html
Backbones in house:
»www.hkix.net/hkix/connected.htm
I'd be willing to pay a little more for guarantees like this here in the states. Thirty second tech support phone call answer? Heck, having an ISP monitor its latencies and network utilization and then publish the data is amazing. American consumer ISP's are so ambiguous and protective about their network data, it becomes difficult to discern value from marketing ploys. HKBN entered as a new player to provide fast network access for cheap and succeeded in saving consumers loads of cash from the incumbents. |
