Bandwidth Price (3)

Recently, Primetrica published new data for their IP transit pricing service and stated that "prices for wholesale Internet access (IP transit) are falling rapidly, but continue to vary dramatically around the world". How much should IP transit cost ?? Currently, according to Primetrica :

• Median monthly IP transit prices for 1,000 Mbps Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) ports in major U.S. and European cities ranged from USD 10 to USD 14 per Mbps in Q2 2008
• The median price of a GigE port in major asian cities ranged from USD 30 per Mbps month in Seoul to USD 45 per Mbps per month in Tokyo
• IP transit service in Latin America is even more expensive, with median GigE port prices ranging from USD 73 per month in Buenos Aires/Sao Paulo to USD 86 per month in Santiago
  

The curves below show rather old Primetrica's sample pricing data (Q3/2006). Median monthly lease price for STM-1 (this time circuit, not IP transit) according to this record, was :

• around USD 5,000 for trans-atlantic connection (London-New York)
• around USD 19,000 for trans-pacific connection (LA-Tokyo)
• around USD 11,000 for Hongkong-Tokyo connection
• around USD 15,000 for Hongkong-Singapore connection
  

Source/Courtesy Telegeography

Asian IP Bandwidth Price (Source/Courtesy Pacnet)