Re: Massive Price Increase for X-conns at Telehouse Chelsea, NYC

[Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>]

On 18/09/2018 08:02, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:44 PM Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il
> <mailto:hank () efes iucc ac il>> wrote:
>
>     On 17/09/2018 23:26, Phil Lavin wrote:
>     >> $350/mo seems to be standard. Our DCs are at $250.    Seems
>     more like they held onto out of date pricing for a long time then
>     realized it.
>     > For what it's worth, Telehouse London is around 30 USD/month for
>     an x-connect within the same building. Our US datacentre (not
>     Telehouse) on the other hand is around 200 USD/month. It's always
>     felt disproportionally expensive but maybe those kind of prices
>     are expected for the North America region.
>     Current list price for 10G Xconnect at the major colo site in
>     Israel is
>     $5840/month.   Discounts are available :-)
>     Keep complaining about $350/mo costs.  You have no idea how lucky
>     you are.
>
>
> it's funny/possible that x-connect costs affect where peering appears
> in the landscape, right? 

Not this time.  Just price gouging since moving a number of cabinets to
a different location is a nightmare.


-Hank