flat vs non-flat charging

I think the idea of distance charging is going away in many cases. With WDM, the cost of the WDM and SONET eqiupment on the ends of a fully populated 32 channel per fiber, 144 strand pull vastly outweight end-to-end fiber costs of anything pulled through the ground. When you add routers and the like on top of that, the distance issue really goes away and it becomes on of network topology hops. Can anyone with figures for new intercontinental pulls say whether this is true there as well (project oxygen marketing claims this, but...)? Using archaic telephone pricing models to argue cost of providing bulk IP services is just not right. jerry