Bandwidth Market Breaks the Penny Barrier.DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Bandwidth Market today announced wholesale telephone circuits for less than one cent per voice circuit mile per month. "Glass fibers have broken the copper backbone in long-haul telecom. The penny barrier has fallen," said Howard Holme, President of the Internet telecommunications broker. A DS3 circuit between New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Washington, D.C., capable of carrying 672 conversations, now costs only $1,411 per month at Bandwidth Market. Barbara Shaw of Bandwidth Market said: "I asked AT&T the price of a T1 line between New York and Washington, and they said $6,322 per month. Our price is 5 times cheaper for 28 times as much capacity since a DS3 equals 28 T1s. Our Internet brokerage is bringing lower prices." "We will also have this same low price per mile from New York to Boston and New York to Chicago," continued Holme of the Denver-based company. "But the `last-mile-problem' remains. The circuit from your house to the local phone switch a mile away costs more than 1,000 times as much ($10.00/month) as the mile price we announced." Holme also announced new lower prices for STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. 1 circuits from New York to 19 different European cities. An STM1 carries 2,016 conversations and will cost $125,000 per month for each European destination, including London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Munich, Milan and Geneva Geneva, canton and city, Switzerland Geneva (jənē`və), Fr. Genève, canton (1990 pop. 373,019), 109 sq mi (282 sq km), SW Switzerland, surrounding the southwest tip of the Lake of Geneva. . "The price of long-term leases for STM1s has dropped more than 80% in the last year, from more than $10 million to less than $2 million," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Holme. Bandwidth Market brokers telecom services from Ameritech, Level 3, Qwest, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. Telecom and many other companies, listing offers and bids and selling to telephone carriers, Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , and businesses. Its Web site, http://www.bandwidthmarket.com, lists more than 14,000 circuits in the U.S., more than any other Internet site. It is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . Prices for moving voice and data over phone lines have dropped with better technology and more competition in telecommunications. Companies have increased the number of fibers in a cable, the number of colors of light carrying information, and the speed of the lasers that flash bits in "Morse code" of Ones and Zeros. |
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