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They should also charge reasonable wholesale rates in that case if you remove the monopolization of the last mile. In other countries this is actually how it wo
by ev1 6y ago
They should also charge reasonable wholesale rates in that case if you remove the monopolization of the last mile. In other countries this is actually how it works already, the underlying cabling is municipal, you just pick an ISP to transit over it.
Comcast charges $0.20/GB for coaxial. Verizon charges $10/GB for LTE. My actual cost for hosting side projects is below $0.50 per 1 TB. It is unreasonable if they are going to fuck with your traffic, tamper with your HTTP payloads and inject scripts into them, deprioritize certain data and still charge multiple orders of magnitude more per GB.
- zamadatix 6y agoIt seems like you're comparing the cost of serving data out of a purpose built location to the cost of transporting it to and from an individual person. Not saying Comcast or Verizon are offering good or bad per GB prices just that it seems you're comparing the cost of your apples (unless your side project is a LOT larger than I'm assuming) and then saying the oranges are mispriced as a result.
- ev1 6y agoI am, but this was with the implication that the last mile fiber was already built out, city/municipality-owned and you are already paying an access fee to use the cabling, therefore you are effectively just transporting packets to/from your own core anyway.