Price Stabilization on Selected 155 Mbps Routes
2002 Price Change Avg Monthly Price Q3 2002
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Amsterdam-London......$4,200
New York-London.......$6,025
New York-Frankfurt....$8,300
New York-Los Angeles..$17,720
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That's just under 2 years ago. Just imagine what a 155Mbps line in SA will cost [
] I speak under correction but a friend getting a leased line for a company in CT was told by TK for a 2Mbps line is R172,000 a month.. I hope he made a mistake and added a zero by accident!
But the above prices show you how cheap international bandwidth is...
And an interesting quote from a related article:
"The report, Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002 confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth far exceeds actual needs. More than <b>6.5 terabits</b> of lit capacity now traverse London—four times more than the combined bandwidth requirements of the forty largest cities in Europe." Damn... [
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<u>Top 10 list (mid 2001):</u>
1. New York (149,989.5 Mbps of Internet bandwidth)
2. London (85,518.7 Mbps)
3. Amsterdam (24,479.6 Mbps)
4. Paris (22,551.8 Mbps)
5. San Francisco (20,813.6 Mbps)
6. Tokyo (16,745.5 Mbps)
7. Washington DC (13,261.2 Mbps)
8. Miami (11,912.4 Mbps)
9. Los Angeles (11,227.0 Mbps)
10. Copenhagen (10,417.0 Mbps)
(Note: Figures represent Internet bandwidth connected across international
borders to Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas or equivalents.
Domestic routes are omitted.)
It seems as if we've got the most bandwidth of all of 'em with 120+130Gbps at our disposal... oopppppss sorry I meant Telkom's disposal... [
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Just imagine where SA would be now if it weren't for Telkom
2002 Price Change Avg Monthly Price Q3 2002
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Amsterdam-London......$4,200
New York-London.......$6,025
New York-Frankfurt....$8,300
New York-Los Angeles..$17,720
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That's just under 2 years ago. Just imagine what a 155Mbps line in SA will cost [
] I speak under correction but a friend getting a leased line for a company in CT was told by TK for a 2Mbps line is R172,000 a month.. I hope he made a mistake and added a zero by accident! But the above prices show you how cheap international bandwidth is...
And an interesting quote from a related article:
"The report, Terrestrial Bandwidth 2002 confirms that the supply of city-to-city bandwidth far exceeds actual needs. More than <b>6.5 terabits</b> of lit capacity now traverse London—four times more than the combined bandwidth requirements of the forty largest cities in Europe." Damn... [
]<u>Top 10 list (mid 2001):</u>
1. New York (149,989.5 Mbps of Internet bandwidth)
2. London (85,518.7 Mbps)
3. Amsterdam (24,479.6 Mbps)
4. Paris (22,551.8 Mbps)
5. San Francisco (20,813.6 Mbps)
6. Tokyo (16,745.5 Mbps)
7. Washington DC (13,261.2 Mbps)
8. Miami (11,912.4 Mbps)
9. Los Angeles (11,227.0 Mbps)
10. Copenhagen (10,417.0 Mbps)
(Note: Figures represent Internet bandwidth connected across international
borders to Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas or equivalents.
Domestic routes are omitted.)
It seems as if we've got the most bandwidth of all of 'em with 120+130Gbps at our disposal... oopppppss sorry I meant Telkom's disposal... [
]<u>_________________________________________________</u>
Just imagine where SA would be now if it weren't for Telkom