
Originally Posted by
12vdc
^Depends pa rin what kind of data, how much is the budget, and where to use it.
Telcos buy bandwidth going abroad(sub cable), ip's, Lay/lease copper,optical cable,microwave radio, terrestrial satellites across the country for a big amount $$. They make money by selling these data to the consumers..
For a regular residential user using ADSL technology or even Lte/3g bandwidth usage is capped.. Commercials use Digital Leased Line(DLL) and usually not capped they have full symmetric upstream and downstream (with the exception of budget leased line that are rationed like Frame Relay, ip services like MPLS and Ethernet) and they cost more..