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RE: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?


From: Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:01:57 -0700


Actually, the cost of undersea capacity is smaller than the
cost of land capacity.  For all i know, prices are being kept
artificially high by parties i don't want to name (they
know).

(Think cost of rights of way and that digging trenches
is not that easy).

--vadim

Hank Nussbacher <hank () ibm net il> wrote:

You are merely showing your geocentricism by saying that bandwidth is
essentially free.  That may be true in the USA but not in other countries
and especially not trans-Pacific or trans-Atlantic.



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