Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
From: Dave Curado <dcurado@neteng.nis.newscorp.com>
However, I had huge problems running an ISP in HK. The telco pricing has always been such that it is scads less expensive to connect back to the US than to another country, even another country just a few miles away. I keep watching the pricing and goings-on to see if/when there will be a reasonable pricing decrease on bandwidth to Asia, but haven't seen anything yet.
Oh well, mark HK off the list...
Pls don't. :) In fact, the situation is the same in almost all countries within Asia/Pacific.
For the time being, it seems that the most affordable solution would be for each country to build it's own exchange, and have everything link back via the US. (although its silly to have traffic from HK to Bangkok routing via San Jose...)
Well, Hawaii is closer... :-/
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