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Re: More undersea cable wars brewing in India


From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:01:55 GMT



I think everyone has pretty much known that the
international cable companies are basically cartels --
leaking bandwidth into the market at a rate sufficient
enough to keep prices artificially high enough to (at
the very least) sustain fiscal margins.

This has been going on for years.

- fergie


-- Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au> wrote:

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

.. and meanwhile, the best part of 32 STM-1s worth of fiber is lying dark ...

If they lit /all/ of the fibre, don't you think it'll all be used very very quickly?

What will they do then? Lay more fibre next year? :)

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or
 fergdawg () sbcglobal net


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