-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:

If I were a stakeholder in transpacific cables, I'd be leasing up the next 3-6 years of the entire global cable laying fleet. :)

The people that have invested in global fiber operate much like a cartel -- leaking the capacity into the market to keep prices artificially high, much like the DeBeers family & diamonds. :-) Historically, representatives of these organizations meet once a year on the golf course in Hawaii to determine who to sell to. It would be nice to see some new faces in that game -- maybe it would help leverage the market a bit. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG9F14q1pz9mNUZTMRAme/AJ9fltDlJax2YTvUUtYIMvMvNuDCDACbBgFm YoNGiX8ABiWEG78NBRsckAg= =GPD/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/