For many folks too the falling price they buy transit for just meansthey are being forced to take that off their product sell prices so they dontactually make any more profit.. in which case there is no advantage to buying below cost services.
In recent years, the unregulated telecoms industry has struggled with the steep slide towards commoditization. This is a problem because the industry's definition of telecom services is so narrow that there are few opportunities to add value and outrun the commoditization wave. Moving packets from point A to point B is rapidly becoming as glamourous and as profitable as moving water from point A to point B or moving gas, or moving electricity... The only way out is for the telecoms industry to be dismantled by 3rd parties who will buy and own networks in order to leverage those networks for their own value-add services. Everyone else will just have to get used to repeated cost-cutting exercises. --Michael Dillon