2.7TBybte is roughly 9 mbit/s sustained traffic.
- 1mbit/s/month of transit is $1 wholesale now in London and Amsterdam through Hurricane Electric -->9 dollar
- If you would work with a day and night rythm for the traffic, where the average peak is about twice the average--> 18 dollars. --> do understand that an ISP like Telenet will use peering too, which would result in a lower bandwidth bill.
- If you buy the traffic up front from a hosting company 20 euro per Terabyte retail --> 54 euro
- If you need to buy the traffic because you went over the traffic you bought up front it's 50 euro per Terabyte retail. --> 135 euro
So the top downloader in Belgium is most likely still profitable to Telenet... though marginally
Just a few more numbers to put it into perspective:
ReplyDelete- 1$ per Mbps is only with a few select "low budget" providers. It's a bit higher for "decent" transit
- that price gives you 1 fiber link to a provider. It does *not* include *any* routing equipment, redundant paths or the other good stuff you actually want
- that price gets you the link, at the internet exchange. The price to get that same mbps to your home that's in a small village, is a multiple of that price!
That being said, I totally agree with you that Tenelet shouldn't wine and just make the products (at least the "expensive" ones) totally limit-less.