Cloudflare Bandwidth Costs Around the World

eva2000 · Aug 19, 2016

Cloudflare's latest blog article discusses their network bandwidth/peering costs from around the world and no surprise Australia's Telstra/Optus costs to Cloudflare are between 4x to 17x times more expensive than Europe/USA Bandwidth Costs Around the World !

Today, however, there are six expensive networks (HiNet, Korea Telecom, Optus, Telecom Argentina, Telefonica, Telstra) that are more than an order of magnitude more expensive than other bandwidth providers around the globe and refuse to discuss local peering relationships. To give you a sense, these six networks represent less than 6% of the traffic but nearly 50% of our bandwidth costs.

While we’ve tried to engage all these providers to reduce their extremely high costs and ensure that even our Free customers can be served across their networks, we’ve hit an impasse. To that end, unfortunately, we’ve made the decision that the only thing that will change these providers’ pricing is to make it clear how out of step they are with the rest of the world. To demonstrate this, we’ve moved our Free customers off these six transit providers. Free customers will still be accessible across our network and served from another regional cache with more reasonable bandwidth pricing.

Ironically, this actually increases the cost to several of these providers because they now need to backhaul traffic to another CloudFlare data center and pay more in the process. For instance, if Telstra were to peer with CloudFlare then they would only have to move traffic over about 30 meters of fiber optic cable between our adjoining cages in the same data center. Now Telstra will need to backhaul traffic to Free customers to Los Angeles or Singapore over expensive undersea cables. Their behavior is irrational in any competitive market and so it is not a surprise that each of these providers is a relative monopolist in their home market.

If you’re a Free CloudFlare customer who cares about optimizing the best possible performance from one of these six providers then we encourage you to reach out to them and encourage them to follow a core principle of a free and open Internet and not abuse their monopoly position. We are committed to serving all our customers across every network that peers with us. To that end, help us convince these six networks to be on the right side of a free and open Internet by reaching out to your ISP.
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To give you an idea, I am on Telstra Cable 100Mbps down/2.4Mbps up with 1000GB bandwidth quote + 4GB/month Mobile wifi backup connection costing AUD$159/month !

eva2000 · Aug 19, 2016

Also discussed at Australia's Telstra and Optus outed as two of the world's six most expensive ISPs • The Register

inthecloudblog · Jan 16, 2017

Even we (latam) are cheaper than Aussies/Nz

eva2000 · Jan 16, 2017

Yeah Australian internet and bandwidth costs are probably the most expensive in the entire world ! I think our mobile data charges are up there too as you can imagine

inthecloudblog · Jan 16, 2017

eva2000 said: ↑

Yeah Australian internet and bandwidth costs are probably the most expensive in the entire world ! I think our mobile data charges are up there too as you can imagine
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We can get 10gig 4g for 43 usd. That's one or maybe the biggest plan on mobile you can get. Cell phone speed through the country (Argentina) has an average of 12mbits IIRC.
We had like 3x the number of antennas of 4g than what we had a year ago.

eva2000 · Jan 16, 2017

Telstra to blame in Australia

Ironically, this actually increases the cost to several of these providers because they now need to backhaul traffic to another CloudFlare data center and pay more in the process. For instance, if Telstra were to peer with CloudFlare then they would only have to move traffic over about 30 meters of fiber optic cable between our adjoining cages in the same data center. Now Telstra will need to backhaul traffic to Free customers to Los Angeles or Singapore over expensive undersea cables. Their behavior is irrational in any competitive market and so it is not a surprise that each of these providers is a relative monopolist in their home market.
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inthecloudblog · Jan 16, 2017

eva2000 said: ↑

Telstra to blame in Australia
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That's info CF has provided?
If that's true they are like the mob :/

eva2000 · Jan 16, 2017

inthecloudblog said: ↑

That's info CF has provided?
If that's true they are like the mob :/
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it's part of the quote from 1st post in this thread from Cloudflare article

inthecloudblog · Jan 16, 2017

eva2000 said: ↑

it's part of the quote from 1st post in this thread from Cloudflare article
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Sorry I did not read that part. I'm from mobile and a bit mentally wasted /tired :/.

R0rke · Feb 17, 2017

believe me , its not worth than Iran . we are almost died here for network and internet prices . we are paying for scraped network . lol

eva2000 · Feb 17, 2017

R0rke said: ↑

believe me , its not worth than Iran . we are almost died here for network and internet prices . we are paying for scraped network . lol
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you mean free bandwidth not good ? not fast ?

R0rke · Feb 17, 2017

To give you an idea, I am on Telstra Cable 100Mbps down/2.4Mbps up with 1000GB bandwidth
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i'm using Iran Telecom ISP . but i have 512 KBS Down and 70 KBPS upload with 10 GB Bandwidth . i know u want to cry for me .

eva2000 · Feb 17, 2017

R0rke said: ↑

i'm using Iran Telecom ISP . but i have 512 KBS Down and 70 KBPS upload with 10 GB Bandwidth . i know u want to cry for me .
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ouch... i'd go crazy if I was back on those speeds !

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