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Originally Posted by obvious
cost of bandwidth to an operation like BT is now about twenty-five cents a gig and dropping rapidly
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Absolutely true, so long as your data magics itself to the edge of their network.
Absolutely untrue that BT Wholesale charge BT Retail 25c per GB across the BT network, which is where most of the cost is, moving several Mbps of data from an exchange with next to no demand for bandwidth previously in the middle of nowhere to a BT POP.
Check BT documents under BT Central Plus for more information on the charging scheme BT Wholesale use on BT Retail.
HOWEVER BT Wholesale are ripping off the ISPs, as you'd expect being a monopoly in so many areas. At the same time their prices are held artificially high by the regulator, which is handy for competitors.