Re: More BW, Less Taxes

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

> >     Trans-oceanic capabilities will remain a bottleneck, but they
> >     are not as problematic as in the previous decade. Witness Tyco
> >     or any of the other folk that have cable-laying capability. Last
> >     year they had waiting lines for boats.  Now the boats are idle.
> >     Too much capacity in water and no-one taking it up. (see first
> >     point above) 
>
> Transatlantic bandwidth is becoming surprisingly cheap. It's now 50% 
> cheaper to get from New York to London than it is to get from New York to 
> San Jose.
>
> Simon

        Yup.   However, have you priced an STM1 from Sydney to Tokyo vs
        STM1 from Sydney to US and Tokyo to US?  The two STM1s are about
        75% of the cost of the direct STM1.

        Please repeat the exercise between Rome and Stockholm vs Rome/US
        & Stockholm/US.

--bill