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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by revelation on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:30PM (#8639311)
I think you don't realize that nobody buys GB of traffic wholesale. They buy bandwidth.
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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by al_bundling on Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:33PM (#8639494)
You are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct. Nobody buys GB of traffic wholesale, they buy TB of traffic because a GB is literally a rounding error.

What you probably meant to say was that wholesale bandwith is usually puchased by the Mbps on a 95th percentile billing, although you can alternatively buy by the TB from some providers.

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Re:What Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plans will Comcast be La... by gojomo on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:36PM (#8639328)
AWS & Google Cloud customers obviously buy by the GB.
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