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Are you familiar with physical internet infrastructure pricing, or are you just assuming? I don't think access is priced as bandwidth. I used to work at a small business isp and that was not how physical access was priced, particularly over relatively bandwidth limited physical connections. Though perhaps you work in the industry?

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> Are you familiar with physical internet infrastructure pricing, or are you just assuming?

Yes, I am familiar and no, I'm not just assuming. I actually RTFA and I checked their upstream providers service offering terms.

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and that upstream provider doesn't share pricing, plus if they are the only alternative to an isolate community, it's a sellers market

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But the article shares pricing information and as I wrote in a sibling comment, the location is rather well connected for being an island.

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It's going to differ around the world but in Australia for business connections I'm used to paying a separate fee for the physical connection (which will have a maximum throughput) and a separate fee for the bandwidth allocation and a third for the monthly data cap.

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Australia is a bit of an outlier, mainly due to Telstra and the Gang of Four. I believe the polite expression for their actions is "maximizing shareholder value".