Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[antonio at nambu.uem.mz]

I don't know about numbers but I know that we aren't profiting from 
it and the satellite providers are overprofiting to such an extent that 
now you get thousands of satellite providers coming to you 
everyday to offer you their services. They get a transponder which 
will take up to 45Mbps of traffic, they will sell portions of 1Mbps, 
2Mbps, 5Mpbs and make a huge profit on that transponder. As I am 
told, a transponder costs about US$45,000.00 a month and they 
charge as much as US$15,000.00 for 2Mbps. So per transponder 
they can get as much as US$360,000.00 a month..... That's what I 
am told....

Cheers,



On 13 May 2003 at 14:21, Bill Woodcock wrote:

>       On Tue, 13 May 2003, Brian Candler wrote:
>     > Building an IX would be an attractive commercial proposition.
> 
> I don't understand your argument...  You're saying that if Africa were
> like the rest of the world, IXes would be a profit-making enterprise,
> although they aren't in the rest of the world?
> 
> I'm not sure what you're getting at.
> 
> Brian made the assertion that the dollar cost of intra-African traffic
> shipped through extra-African exchanges was approximately US$400M.
> I emailed him to ask his sources privately, and Randy emailed to ask his
> sources publicly.  I don't think I have reason to question the assertion,
> I'd just like to see the backing source numbers.
> 
>                                 -Bill
> 
> 
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