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Originally posted by JackSpratts
california here i come 
- js.
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no shit...
i ran across this on SlashDot....
Breakdown of Bandwidth Costs ...along with a couple of dozen opinions of how this works. it got a little technical for me, and i got lost a few times, but my impression from this is that most of the costs are fixed.
One reply from somebody who works for an ISP summed it up like this:
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I also know that we mark it up so much that I think it is ludicrous, but we can because we can.
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I think this is probably the most succinct assessment of why broadband costs what it does.