IP Transit Prices Drop Further

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Prices for wholesale IP transit service continue to decline throughout the world. According to new data from TeleGeography’s IP Transit Pricing Service, price declines in most locations accelerated between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012, compared with the longer-term trend.  These trends will reduce the cost of local loop or tail-circuits for wide area networks and internet access.

The median monthly lease price for a full GigE port in London dropped 57 percent between Q2 2011 and Q2 2012 to $3.13 per Mbps, compared with a 31 percent decline compounded annually from Q2 2007 to Q2 2012. In New York, the comparable price dropped 50 percent to $3.50 per Mbps over the past year, and 26 percent compounded annually over the five-year period. Pricing for short term promotions and high capacities has dropped below $1.00 per Mbps per month.

While prices have declined globally, significant geographic disparities persist. For example, the median price of a GigE port in Hong Kong has remained 2.7 to 5.1 times the price of a GigE port in London over the past five years. The price of a GigE port in São Paulo  has remained between 5.2 and 8.2 times the price of a comparable port in New York.

IP transit prices have reached extremely low levels in developed markets, but remain high in many developing markets and in countries that are remote from major IP transit hubs. Nevertheless, few places remain where transit prices exceed $100 per Mbps. As carriers expand into emerging markets and establish new price floors in developed markets, global IP transit prices will continue to fall.

The above information provided by TeleGeography, the leading source of wholesale bandwidth pricing from nearly fifty carriers in seventy cities around the world.

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