Quoting Marc A. Ohmann (marc at ds6.net):
> I was recently pricing out DS1 and DS3 links from Onvoy, Sprint, and Qwest and
> I was shocked at the prices.  DS3s may be 30x faster than DS1s but they are
> also 30x the price!  $30k - 35k/mo! I always thought that links got cheaper
> per bandwidth as they went up.  So if its $35k / mo for 45Mbps how can
> kernel.org, slackware.com, ... afford to have dedicated 100 and 155Mbps links
> when they're non-profit.  If prices remain linear someones paying $100-150k /
> mo! Who's footin' the bill?

Now you know why so many CLEC and Broadband providers went out of business. The
way most ISPs make money is volume.

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