T3 Line Cost

$3000 per month.  Starting monthly cost to lease a T3 line reported in 2001.  “A T3 is a leased line connection that can transfer almost 45 megabytes of data per second…  T3 leasing costs vary, but a T3 lease usually starts at $3,000 per month.” T3 monthly cost.  T3 45 mbps cost.  (Nicole Nascenzi, “Companies Have Choice of A Variety of Web-Hosting Options,” Tulsa World, Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May 12, 2001)

$5000 per month (2009).  Approximate monthly price for a 45 mbps T3 connection.  “The traditional T1 and DS3 [T3 lines] are being replaced now where possible with Ethernet.  …Ethernet is a better way to go (if you can) based on price.  Ethernet is not available everywhere but we’re seeing it become more and more available.  …A typical T1 at 1.5 mbps is about $500 a month.  A typical DS3 [T3 connection] at 45 mbps is approximately $5000 a month.  Now compare that [T3 price] to Ethernet [where] you can get a 10 meg [10 mbps] connection for [approximately] $1000 a month or a 100 meg [100 mbps] connection at [approximately] $2000 a month.  …If you were to bond two T1s together, for example, that would be a 3 meg [3 mbps] connection but you’d be paying about $1000 per month.  Now compare that to a 10 meg [10 mbps Ethernet] connection [$1000 per month] and you can see that you just have a better way to go with Ethernet if it’s available to you where you physically are [located].” How much does a T3 cost per month? Per meg pricing. Price of T3 access. (Eric Severson, “Key IT Consulting, “Using Ethernet For WAN And Internet Access,” YouTube video presentation, July 23, 2009)

$7000 per month (1995).  Starting T3 per month pricing for BBN Planet’s high speed Internet access service announced in 1995.  “BBN Planet Corp., a subsidiary of BBN, today announced that it has reduced and restructured the pricing of its Internet AdvantageSM high-speed Internet access services for businesses and organizations…  …BBN Planet announced that pricing for its new usage-based T3 (45 million bits per second) class service starts as low as $7,000 per month.”  How much does a T3 line cost? (No author credited, “BBN Planet lowers costs of Internet entry with flexible pricing,” Business Wire, October 26, 1995)

$10,175 (2000).  Average monthly cost for a T3 port . “ATM [Asynchronous Transfer Mode] service pricing varies considerably by port speed and [service] provider, but the average monthly cost for a T3 port is $10,175.”  Average monthly T3 cost.  (Rosemary M. Cochran, “ATM Market Update -- The New Millennium,” Business Communications Review, September 1, 2000)

$10,000+ per month (2007).  Cost per month that a T3 line can run.  “It's important to note that additional bandwidth costs more money, and WAN [wide area network] service is a recurring cost for organizations. For example, a business cable WAN connection can run up to $250 per month, while a T3 line can run over $10,000 per month. Bandwidth increases can become a significant hit to the monthly budget.” What is the monthly cost of business T3 line?  Business T3 cost.  T3 network cost. (Stephen J. Bigelow, Features Writer, “WAN storage guide -- Chapter 1: WAN basics,” SearchStorage.com, June 1, 2007)

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$10,000+ per month (1997).  Cost of each of CNET’s T3 connections.  “CNET: The Computer Network uses parts of three different T3 lines to connect its online web sites and news services with customers. Each connection is 30 times faster than a T1 line, and costs upwards of $10,000 a month, according to John Caruso, CNET's director of system and network management.”  How much are T1 line costs?  T-1 T-3 internet connections cost.  T3 network cost. (Adam Feuerstein, Business Times Staff Writer, “New hookup suits heavy Internet users to a T1,” San Francisco Business Times, “Friday, June 27, 1997)

$13,000 to $15,000 per month (2002).  Typical cost of a T3 line.  A T3 line is a "dedicated phone line that supports 45 Mbps, usually used by an ISP to connect to the Internet backbone or by a large facility. Typical cost: $13,000 to $15,000 a month.” Typical t3 costs.  (Anne Constable, “Bridging Santa Fe's Digital Divide,” The Santa Fe New Mexican, February 24, 2002)

$15,000 per month (2005).  "The most significant differences between T1 lines and T3 lines are cost and speed. The typical T1 connection costs approximately $800 per month while a T3 connection can cost as much as $15,000 per month. T3 lines are extremely high bandwidth connections into a carrier's backbone. They typically include SLAs (Service Level Agreements) that guarantee uptime and performance." (Luba Yelovich-Sakharuk, "Performance of a T3 link," CS 577  Term Project, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Computer Science, Email: cs@wpi.edu, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-2280, 508-831-5357, Spring 2005, p. 9)

$15,000 per month (2004).  Approximate cost of a T3 connection for an end user.  “[With] more [real estate agencies] adding remote locations and satellite offices, many are finding they have outgrown the bandwidth available on T1 lines - but aren't yet large enough to justify the cost to upgrade to a T3 line, which offers a whopping 45 megabits per second.  The solution? A growing number of real estate firms with several locations are filling the gap by installing multi-link frame relay connections, an affordable solution that lets users bond multiple T1 line connections at several locations for faster speed and wider bandwidth. This solution allows an enterprise to incrementally increase Internet capacity without investing in costly new technology or installing the more expensive T3 lines.  Users are finding that multi-link frame relay connections provide flexibility and high bandwidth at reduced costs, providing broadband Internet access at speeds above the T1 levels at an affordable price.  A T3 connection, for instance, might cost an end user as much as $15,000 per month, while multi-link frame relay services in the 3mbps to 6mbps range can be priced at $1,500 to $3,000 a month and more precisely sized to the end-user's actual needs.”  (Rob Timmons, “Boosting online capability could boost a firm's bottom-line business,” Baltimore Business Journal, Friday, March 5, 2004)

$18,000 to $30,000 (2001).  Monthly cost of a 45 Mbps T-3 line. (L. Gary Boomer, CPA, president of Boomer Consulting, “Bandwidth explosion mandates launching new CPA strategies,” Accounting Today, February 26, 2001)

$20,000 to $25,000 per month (2002).  Monthly T-3 service rates.  “The T-1, T-3 and Integrated Services Digital Network (IDSN) markets will continue to play an important role in bringing basic high speed access to the business community. The Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) services will begin to provide attractive [DSL cost] alternatives to the more expensive high speed facilities, such as T-1 and T-3.  A significant gap in carrier service offerings and cost exists between the T-1 facilities providing 1.544 Mbps, and T-3 service that offers a much higher rate of 45 Mbps, and thereby demanding a much higher pricing schedule. Where T-1 may offer a rate of $800 to $1000 per month, T-3 service rates approximate $20,000 to $25,000 per month for an equivalent distance between sites. DSL services will be able to fill the gap between T-1 and T-3 with new services offerings like G.SHDSL (high bit rate DSL), which offers data rates between T-1 and T-3 at a much lower cost.”  T3 data line costs. (No author credited, “Business broadband competition will drive prices down,” Microwave Journal, August 1, 2002)

$26,000 per month (2000).  T-3 pricing offered by AT&T in 2000.  “In February [2000], AT&T carved about one-third off of its T-3 offering, dropping from $35,000 to $26,000 per month.”  How much does T3 cost a month?  (Denise Pappalardo, “Dedicated T-3 prices drop dramatically,” Network World, June 19, 2000)

$26,000 and $32,000 a month (1999).  Estimated range for the monthly cost of a T3 line (1999).  “At the top end, a business can opt for a T3, which moves data at 45 megabits per second, and can cost between $26,000 and $32,000 a month.” How expensive is a T3 line?  (Jeff Haynes, “Tenants pay for smart moves,” Jacksonville Business Journal, Friday, July 9, 1999)

$27,000 per month (2001).  Cost of a dedicated T3 line in major metropolitan areas (2001).  “The Principia proxy unit, though priced at about $24,000, is a less pricey method for mirroring data than using dedicated optical fiber at $1 million per mile, or a dedicated T3 line at charges of around $27,000 per month in major metropolitan areas, said Ron McCabe, president of MiraLink.”  How much does it cost for a t3 line?  (Aliza Earnshaw, Business Journal Staff Writer, “Hosting businesses may prosper in the aftermath [of 9/11],” Portland Business Journal, Friday, November 2, 2001)

$45,000 per month (1998).  Cost of T-3 connections in 1998.  “Those customers looking for bargains on dedicated Internet access are most likely to find the best deals on the high end of the bandwidth spectrum. In some cases, the cost of dedicated T-3 (45M bit/sec) Internet access services are down more than 25% over the past six months.  Part of the price drop is attributed to ISPs deploying faster network gear that can support up to OC-192 speeds, says Steven Harris, an analyst with market research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass. Increased bandwidth demand is also a contributing factor, he says.  Lower prices will play a large part in customers' decisions to move to a T-3 line instead of adding more T-1 (1.544M bit/sec) lines.  ‘Not two years ago, dedicated T-3 connections were $45,000 per month,’ says Jim Slabey, senior analyst at Giga Information Group, a Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm. Today, customers will pay at least $10,000 per month less. . . .  UUNET currently has the highest monthly T-3 rate at $35,000, but the ISP says it will introduce new rates next month.” Cost of T-3.  How expensive is T3?  (Denise Pappalardo, “Dedicated T-3 prices drop dramatically,” Network World, June 19, 2000)

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