[PLUG-TALK] economics of gigabit

[Russell Senior]

As long as we are citing the business press:

  http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/08/01/the-economics-of-the-google-gigabit/

One thing the author misses is the reason the Sonic.net dude in
California cites in how he does a gigabit for $70/month.  At least in
the short term, by and large, he says, it doesn't increase the amount
of data that each subscriber wants/gets, but merely gets it to them
quicker.  As a result, the aggregate bandwidth consumed by his users
doesn't go up very much.  So, his upstream bandwidth expenses don't
really go up significantly.


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