[LINK] Fwd: MR46-05: Lower prices drive shift to broadband

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:15 AM 24/11/2005, Paul Brooks wrote:
>hese days the incremental extra cost of the upstream backhaul
>bandwidth is negligable. 512/64, 512/512, 256/256, 1024k/1024k, 1500/512,
>8Mbps/512k, whatever combination you like - as long as its ADSL they are
>all just software limits, and cost the same to provide.

Now that is interesting information. Is there something in the next part of 
the path that affects cost re increased traffic that is a basis for this 
pricing differential?  Is Telstra just playing games again?

Jan



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