Reflecting satellites, big business
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Skywise wrote:
The way Internet traffic is sold makes even this kind of traffic
valuable. Imagine the high cost of an Atlantic cable.
I believe there are perfectly functional, less than 20-year-old
transoceanic fiber cables that have simply been abandoned in place on
the ocean floor, because the latest cables have such immense
traffic-handling capability that these older cables are simple not
needed, and it makes no sense to continue to operate them.
The loaded cost of transferring bits through an Atlantic cable **per
telephone call* or **per file transferred** is just unimaginably small
-- truly "bandwidth almost too cheap to monitor or to measure".
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