online storage and bandwidth

I’m doing a lot of research on the [tag-ice]online storage[/tag-ice] market recently. There is a lot going on here. Still no real reliable provider yet – I mean really reliable. What struck was this statement by one of the very successful consumer storage-providers. Box.net‘s Aaron states.

If these were our costs for an average free account, we, or anyone who offered it, would be in business for no more than two months.