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I'm surprised at how well connected Australia is. Why is their internet still so expensive?
by squeed 15y ago
I'm surprised at how well connected Australia is. Why is their internet still so expensive?
- pavel_lishin 15y agoPerhaps because it costs money to lay cables. I was talking to an astronomer the other day who mentioned that they're trying to set up a big distributed radio-astronomy rig out in the desert. One of the consequences is that this thing is going to be producing a ton of data - I think he mentioned on the order of petabytes-per-second. So they're trying to work with the Australian government and Telcos to defray the costs by offering the connection as a service, as well. So the cost could drop, soon. Or it could just be offered as a $300 MEGA-SKYLINK-INTERTRON.
- steveh73 15y agoThere's only 2 connections to the USA at the moment, and SCC charges monopoly prices. There is another AU<>NZ<>USA connection being built in 2014 and another AU<>NZ connection built in 2013 (the 2 grey lines). Southern Cross already dropped their prices 44% in response.
- rmc 15y agoPrice is usually not set at "Cost + Profit %" (this is called the Labour Theory of Value), instead organisations charge what the market can bear.