My yawn is now the size of the Grand Canyon, but:
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Cost of a data transmission is same from the Cellar to NYC as it is from the Cellar to Sydney Australia
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No variable costs. But there are the fixed costs of the undersea cables you need to lay, in order to guarantee low latency, via always having an overage of bandwidth.
Each one is hundreds of millions of dollars, and you need multiple of them to every connection point on every continent, and you need to build enough bandwidth into them for a world that will require more and more bandwidth. Requiring you to lay new cables... they estimate, every 25 years.
Because the bandwidth requirements increase exponentially. The people require more bandwidth, but there are also more connected people. Each cable you lay to one continent increases the bandwidth requirements to every other continent.
Meanwhile, The Cellar is now located on a virtual server in Newark. Cellar to NYC is over super high-capacity circuits and it's just across the Hudson. You may see a ping of 3-4ms. Any Manhattan dwellars here?