I totally understand that but the price hasn't dropped in what, a decade? My home internet connection (which includes a shedload of last mile costs laying fibre

I totally understand that but the price hasn't dropped in what, a decade? My home internet connection (which includes a shedload of last mile costs laying fibre to my apartment) has went from 2mbit/sec to 1gig/sec (for less money in real terms) in a similar timespan. I'm not expecting it to be at the cost of a 10gig cogent connection at LINX, but some drop makes sense. DO/Backblaze pricing seems to be more on the money. Keep in mind these provides also do charge on top for a lot of other networking services (VPCs, NATs etc) which often can really add up, so I'd expect some of the SDN capex to be absorbed by that.