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Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC
From: Franck Martin <franck () genius com>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:41:34 +1200 (FJT)
It always amaze me how the word de-regulated is so misused. When there is a monopoly the regulation is in fact very very light: Acme co is the monopoly and government cash in dividends/license fees and just check they don't do anything really silly. When there is competition this is when you have a heavy regulation, because all the players have now to play nicely with each others (access to each other network, anti competitive practices, keeping your number, roaming, inter-exchange, spectrum allocation,...). When competition comes the regulatory unit becomes bigger. In short competition increase regulation, it certainly does not decrease it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike () swm pp se> To: "Benson Schliesser" <bensons () queuefull net> Cc: "nanog" <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Friday, 13 August, 2010 5:20:04 PM Subject: Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Benson Schliesser wrote:
Further, how does the situation compare to past examples like Europe?
Countries in Europe are all in different phases of competition and pricing. There is at least 10x difference in transit prices across Europe, with central and northern Europe being the cheapest, and southern and eastern being the most expensive. I agree totally with Mr Gilmore that it's all about competition. When there are 3+ (preferrably 4+) providers or something and the market is de-regulated then you get huge downward pressure on price and you soon hit levels of 5-20% operating margin and a mature market.
Current thread:
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC, (continued)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Christopher Hart (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Benson Schliesser (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Leigh Porter (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Nathan Stratton (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Franck Martin (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Joel Jaeggli (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Benson Schliesser (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Dorian Kim (Aug 12)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Benson Schliesser (Aug 12)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 12)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Franck Martin (Aug 12)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Gregg Berkholtz (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Matthew Palmer (Aug 11)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Patrick W. Gilmore (Aug 12)
- Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC Franck Martin (Aug 12)