Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click

Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by dfc on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @10:45AM (#8296766)

  > As we’ve seen that bandwidth pricing is not reflective of the
  > underlying fair market value when Internet service providers have
  > monopolistic control,

Where was the fair market value of bandwidth presented/derived? I did not see it on the page submitted or the page linked to in the excerpt.

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Re:Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click by rdl on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @06:15PM (#8299534)

It's a reference to http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-ar...

i.e. telstra extracting monopoly rents by being a monopoly, vs. the otherwise prevailing price.

I agree it's difficult to treat bandwidth as a true commodity, especially when there's a monopoly, but I think it's clear that if Australia weren't Telstra's victim, bandwidth prices would be far lower.

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