Internet Bandwidth Prices Falling -- For Wholesalers, not Consumers

The price of Internet bandwidth continues to fall -- not for consumers, but at the wholesale level. Prices for wholesale Internet bandwidth -- the kind that is sold to content providers such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Netflix and Internet service providers -- are declining at a steady clip. The service provided is known as IP transit. Data released by research firm Telegeography shows that prices for IP transit are declining even as international traffic volumes are growing at more than 60 percent annually.