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Old 02-05-2008, 04:36 AM  
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Originally Posted by Mike33 View Post

Revenue for it was $120,000 per month (I'd imagine the bandwidth expense eats up a huge chunk of that - maybe somebody here can do the approx calculations). "

Tanks for this interesting article. Let's do some maths:

~0,01 Mbps per user
500.000 users a day (accroding this article in mai 2006)

= 5000 Mbps of bandwidth

So over $24 per mbps they lose money.

Now all depends of how much they pay for 1 mbps of bandwidth but profit margin must be very slim.
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