The prices per megabyte for a wholesaler, remember the days where everyone used Maxim, and whatnot, always were paying something 35.00 per mbps to their backbone provider, Which is pretty close to what they are still paying, and they were reselling it for 10-20 times as much...
There are many factors why its so more affordable now, here are some...
Difference is the bulk of use has changed drastically, more companies and more competition. Back in the day companies that charged for cheap bandwidth also had charged for things like port fee's, electric, insurance, etc etc. and had limited rack space. With all the new super network operation centers being built, that carrier to all providers, almost all service providers are leasing this space at a super cost savings, and then have management offices elsewhere. Now you can have your choice of at&t, sprint, verio, level3, cognent, and 50 more all in the same place. so you have these companies competing over time in price wars. Cognent has never an issue in reduced costs, they have always been overselling their circuits and only used cheap price to end user promotion as a tactic of company promotion.
With this companies are not needing to build offices and all this technology and
whatnot, so of course the savings are tremendous and can pass them along.
Also computer servers have dropped in cost, and management of these servers has become more easier as systems and proper management have been developed, the software is more secure, and the knowledge of handling these for employee's is way more stable.
Still have many techs working on my servers at some places that really have no clue being on a computer.... This is another reason why you might be paying less
