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Originally Posted by IanUK
I host websites and run several dedicated server's, I pay around £60 a month for 1,000 gig (yes a *thousand* gig) of monthly bandwidth, and have done for a year or so, NTL own their own network, how can they propose to overcharge their own customers so much for bandwidth.
It doesn't add up.
Just my view.
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Adds up perfectly to be honest sir. Taking data from a datacentre straight onto an already built transit line is easy and cheap. Taking it from various sites around the country, operating, maintaining those networks, paying staff to look after them etc has to be paid for. Any bandwidth charges have to take into account the fix charges regardless of usage, along with the costs of moving each GB from a customer's premises through a hybrid fibre / copper network to a uBR then the backhaul from there out to the internet.
EDIT: That price is exceptionally low by the way, last time I did any serious bandwidth shopping I was quoted £40 per Mbit/s a month, 95th percentile rate. Who is that with?