Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On 17 Aug 2004, at 14:20, Patrick W Gilmore wrote:

> Things are not the same everywhere.  Politics, infrastructure, labor, 
> taxes, and a myriad of other factors make it not very useful to say 
> "US is $30, AU is $300" and expect to draw any meaningful conclusion 
> by the comparison - except, of course, that AU transit is more 
> expensive than US transit.

I don't know, the Economist has been making allegedly useful comments 
about the relative prices of the Big Mac in different economies for a 
long time.

http://www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/Index.cfm

I suppose a more direct analogy to the Big Mac Index would be to take 
some usefully-accurate measure of transit costs in each country, and 
use that to weight a comparison between other related commodities (cell 
phone calls? televisions? computers?)

Of course, I am not an economist, and people who are tend to scare me.


Joe