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Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit
From: Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:34:16 -0400
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.cfmI 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
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- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit, (continued)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michael . Dillon (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Fredy Kuenzler (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Deepak Jain (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Niels Bakker (Aug 18)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Stephen J. Wilcox (Aug 18)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Burton, Chris (Aug 16)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 16)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Michel Py (Aug 16)
- RE: Current street prices for US Internet Transit William B. Norton (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Joe Abley (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Randy Bush (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Eric Kuhnke (Aug 17)
- Re: Current street prices for US Internet Transit Patrick W Gilmore (Aug 17)