[orionvmjoseph]

This is true, unfortunately the cost of bandwidth in Australia is very high even for service providers such as ourselves. That being said we currently don't have the scale to leverage our data consumption to decrease costs through peering etc. For now $1/Gb places us one of the cheaper providers for bandwith in Australia. We do however see data ingress as a significant hurdle to cloud adoption so we will be foccussing on reducing these costs in the future. :)

[jacques_chester]

I know it's not your fault, but it's one of the reasons that the Australian internet market is so rooted.

[orionvmjoseph]

Aye. :( Ahh well, in time things will get better.