Members of the London Internet Exchange (LINX), which include hundreds of UK and European ISPs, have reportedly seen fees drop by 40% since the beginning of 2008. Falling service prices and exchange rates appear to be the cause.

A major contributor to this has been the range of price cuts implemented last September. At that time annual membership fees were reduced by 10% and the cost of 1 GigE and 10 GigE ports across LINX's two independent local area networks (LANs) were lowered by as much as 25%:


For example, a large American content network with eight 10 Gb ports at LINX has seen prices drop from $30,000 per month in January last year to $16,900 now. Meanwhile European access networks with two 10 Gb ports have seen their costs lowered from €5400 in 2008 to €3200 today.