I pay roughly half that price for roughly a tenth of that
speed at my datacenter and this is the cheapest datacenter in the
Los Angeles

region.  I thought I was getting a really good deal because other places charge
like $50 for a 1 Mbit commit.  Today I ran across some articles about CTEL, a
Hong Kong
communications company that offers rates far better than even mine…Let me re-emphasizes…their
rates are FAAAARRRRRRRRRRR better.

100 Mbps = $48.50

200 Mbps = $88.20

1000 Mbps = $215.40

“Effective immediately, HKBN will offer residential FTTH broadband services ranging
from 100Mbps to 1Gbps, namely, FiberHome100, FiberHome200 and FiberHome1000, at US$48.5,
US$88.2 and US$215.4 respectively.”

Is this fiction?  Sounds like it.  That’s why I found a reliable source
to back up my claims:
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/HKW00619092007-1.htm

Now how can AT&T charge customers $60 a month for a 6 Mbps connection…and this
is CHEAP??  Not to mention AT&T’s DSL is asynchronous so the upload is no
where close to 6 Mbps.  So let’s get this straight…a Hong Kong company is offering
Internet over 16X the speed of download and roughly 30X the speed of upload for a
fraction of the cost?  Apparently so.