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by birdsbirdsbirds 2011 days ago
Offtopic: [1]

>North America Europe 100GB per month free $0.02 per GB

>India 30 GB per month free $0.12 per GB

How come India is so much more expensive?

Is this how Jio manages to keep consumer costs down, by making service providers pay the bill?

[1] https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#outbound-data-transfer

2 comments

Supply and demand

and vicious cycle (lack of demand -> cant sustain to pay for equipment and maintenance cost -> rise higher price to compensate -> be more expensive -> subscribers cant pay -> quit -> lesser demand -> rinse and repeat)

We have a blog post about that! https://fly.io/blog/we-cut-bandwidth-prices-go-nuts/

The tldr: we don't have heavy usage in India. When we do, it'll be about half that price.