[LINK] Australia: 20TB data per day

Carl Makin carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:15:03 +1100 (EST)


On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, stephen loosley wrote:

> We're Insatiable: Now it's 20 Million Million Bytes a Day
> Nathan Cochrane, Monday, January 15, 2001
> http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/networking/20010115/A13694-2001Jan15.html?tn

> .. Australian Web surfers more than doubled their consumption last year to 
> 20 terabytes (TB) [per day]. One TB equals about one million million bytes 
> of information a day.

at 12c/MB (plus GST) = around $2.4 Million (and the gov makes
$240,000) per day.  Nice little money earner...


Carl.