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Originally posted by Wiredoctor
Wrong, its a 100mb for 3k 30 cents. And cogent wont last and no prices wont go lower. as soon as cogent finishes losing the rest of their peering points and then finally closes, bandwidth will be back to normal, and quality will be better, and prices will be where they should be.
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The price looks like 10 cents a GB ($3000 for 100 Mbps, $30 per Mbps, 300 GB per Mbps, 10 cents/GB). Obviously there are others costs (local loop, routers, rack space, power, switches, servers, other hardware, cooling, support, labor etc.) so the OSPs cost is higher than 10 cents/GB.
I agree with your second statement through, it is likely that cogent will go out of business either because they'll run out of peering points or money, and then bandwidth prices will go back to "normal." I'm not too worried about cogent going out of business, we have backup connections.
The other option is that cogent will stay in business (how?!) and others will lower their prices, unlikely.