"Thus Google’s 16.5% share of all 2008 U.S. consumer bandwidth usage, is ~21 times greater than Google’s 0.8% share of U.S. consumer bandwidth costs – or an implicit ~$6.9 billion subsidy of Google by U.S. consumers."
Um, economy of scale, anyone? If Google paid the same rates the average consumer paid they would probably be bankrupt.
Um, economy of scale, anyone? If Google paid the same rates the average consumer paid they would probably be bankrupt.