It's a reference to http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-ar...

It's a reference to http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-around-the-world http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-ar... i.e. telstra extracting monopoly rents by being a monopoly, vs. the otherwise prevailing price. I agree it's difficult to treat bandwidth as a true commodity, especially when there's a monopoly, but I think it's clear that if Australia weren't Telstra's victim, bandwidth prices would be far lower.