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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by foepys on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:28PM (#16724738)
But that's how the internet works in general. An ISP doesn't have a 500,000 * 100 MBit/s connection in a city to enable simultaneous downloads from all customers at once.
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Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in comp... by cthalupa on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:51PM (#16724846)
I'm not claiming otherwise - just that my theory (and I have no actual evidence beyond the anecdotal) is that the big cloud providers aren't "overcharging" for bandwidth, just that they cannot offer discounts from oversubscription that others may be able to.
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