Uh, but there is a limiting factor for wired data: The teensy wire connecting New Zealand to the USA - where most of the data is.
Look up Southern Cross Cable in Wikipedia. 50% owned by Telecom NZ. 18,000 miles of fiber. Cost something like a billion dollars.
Maybe someday there will be a competing cable system... but there isn't yet. So ISPs *all* pay by usage for that cable, and pass on the expense.
The one weird thing is that they charge the same for data traffic that's local to NZ. That may be just because it's hard to explain to users why some bits cost more than others.
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Date: 2010-07-02 02:37 am (UTC)Look up Southern Cross Cable in Wikipedia. 50% owned by Telecom NZ. 18,000 miles of fiber. Cost something like a billion dollars.
Maybe someday there will be a competing cable system... but there isn't yet. So ISPs *all* pay by usage for that cable, and pass on the expense.
The one weird thing is that they charge the same for data traffic that's local to NZ. That may be just because it's hard to explain to users why some bits cost more than others.