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Wholesale bandwidth 40% cheaper than last year

Wholesale broadband prices are dropping rapidly everywhere - but are your costs getting lower?

According to our friends at TeleGeography - they were the ones behind this awesome map of internet cables, if you recall - the wholesale price of internet access is dropping sharply.

And the drop isn't just in developing markets where capacity is starting to flow and prices can fall accordingly. No, we're seeing pretty good news at home.

"Wholesale prices around the world have been declining rapidly, due to competition and declining equipment and transport costs. Somewhat surprisingly, prices in the U.S. and Europe are falling as fast as, or faster than, prices in many more expensive regional markets."

This graph tells the story. But why isn't the cost of my broadband access coming down accordingly?

TeleGeography graph of falling broadband wholesale costs

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