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Re: More BW, Less Taxes
- From: Simon Lockhart
- Date: Tue May 29 12:22:16 2001
> Trans-oceanic capabilities will remain a bottleneck, but they
> are not as problematic as in the previous decade. Witness Tyco
> or any of the other folk that have cable-laying capability. Last
> year they had waiting lines for boats. Now the boats are idle.
> Too much capacity in water and no-one taking it up. (see first
> point above)
Transatlantic bandwidth is becoming surprisingly cheap. It's now 50%
cheaper to get from New York to London than it is to get from New York to
San Jose.
Simon
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