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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23
virgin dnt own the backhaul onto the internet only there fibre network once it connected to the backbone of the internet they pay for traffic jsut like bt does as well, but i aint saying this is a excuss for them just trying to clarify a slight misunderstanding.
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you misunderstood me.
virgin own their own network, all of their backhaul linking up cable customers.
an isp like zen has to pay BT wholesale to get the traffic from the customers house to zen's network, so zen has to pay BT wholesale to shift the traffic across the country.
You are reffering to internet transit which is something different.
to give you an idea how expensive BT backhaul is entanet said they can send traffic to australia for about 10% of the cost they have to pay BT to send customer traffic to them.
Isp's such as sky and BE bypass these costs as they dont use BT wholesale backhaul, although they then have to pay for their own backhaul it is significantly cheaper hence they more competitive, VM also has their own backhaul.