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by virtuallynathan 3753 days ago
To put those numbers into standard transit pricing using US-East (AWS):

Up to 10 TB / month - $30/Mbps

Next 350 TB / month - $16.50/Mbps

Traffic within the same Region - $3.50/Mbps

Traffic to another region - $6.50/Mbps

The outbound traffic starts at $45/Mbps in AsiaPac and $85/Mbps in Latin America.

In the US and most of the EU, at >1Gbps (~350TB/mo) volume, transit pricing is well under $1/Mbps. Most of Asia should be under $10/Mbps, and south america is quite a bit higher, but not $70/Mbps.

See: https://www.telegeography.com/press/press-releases/2015/09/0...

http://blog.telegeography.com/bandwidth-and-ip-pricing-trend...

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$1/Mbps seems closer to what I would expect the price to be. 30x over market is an astonishing price markup. I don't understand how any startup I've built that used a lot of bandwidth could take that risk on infrastructure. I would actually be concerned about being successful.