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Someone1234 on Aug 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World

Can you explain what you mean? Why is $10/Mbps inaccurate? Aren't both $1 and 1 Mbps known fixed quantities we can use to calculate other figures (e.g. $100/Mbps, etc).

swores on Aug 26, 2014 [–]

Because it's a made-up number.

> "We don't disclose exactly what we pay for transit, but I can give you a relative sense of regional differences."

They are literally pulling 10 out of the air and saying "IF it cost 10 in the US, what would it cost in other regions comparatively"

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