At 9:03 PM +1300 5/10/00, keri Ring wrote:
>Does DSL data cost an isp more than modem based data?

I can't see why.

>Cos essentially I could get a flat rate dial up connection and use
>
>approx 10meg per hour, * 12hrs per day, * 20 days per month (heavy usage
>average)
>
>giving 24 gigs data for a measly $24.95,
>
>thats a data cost of 1.04c per megabyte. - even if you take 10% of this
>usage it is only 10c per mb!
>
>Are these ISP's offering flate rate making large losses,
>or are we simply paying what the market will stand for dsl? at 20c per meg.

Well, notice that Ihug's Satnet/StarNet/Ultra has historically (OK,
for the last 12 months) had accounts for $70/month with 3072 MB of
data. That's 2.3 cents per MB. They supposedly charge 10c/MB for
additional data but I've never managed to actually use that much.

Now, Ihug are offering Ultra accounts for $60/month with a 300 hour
limit but unlimited data. If you download a lot you could easily get
that down to 0.1 c/MB.

-- Bruce

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