Comments on: YouTube’s Bandwidth: Cheap, But Not Free

By: Data Center Space

Data Center Space — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:21:49 +0000

I’m sure Google made a calculated investment in the correct infrastructure in order to achieve minimal costs. You have to applaud them.

By: Fanis

Fanis — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:11:57 +0000

Own data centers, own fibre cables, own ISP networks…
I think YouTube not only not pays for bandwidth, but also gets income from every consumed bandwidth, because all Google’s investments was spent for creating infrastructure, which also can serve to Google for (1) maintaining other projects; (2) for selling its odd resources.

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Texjour's Blog — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:08:57 +0000

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By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:25:27 +0000

If you have to buy dark fibre and lay out billions for infrastructure to get free bandwidth it isn’t really free is it? Everyone in this industry needs to amortize cap.ex to really understand costs.

By: Specialist Data Centre Cleaning

Specialist Data Centre Cleaning — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:49:18 +0000

Somebody needs to pay…they certainly have the funds.

By: Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Smith — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:45:47 +0000

They should be charged in my opinion.

By: Data Center Space & Colocation

Data Center Space & Colocation — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:54:47 +0000

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. If there is I want one!

By: Data Centre Cleaner

Data Centre Cleaner — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:56:22 +0000

If this is the case then ‘hats off to them’

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