[65] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: competition [NON-answer to the question]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Schlitt)
Wed Oct 31 09:37:42 1990
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 90 09:25:04 -0500
From: Dan Schlitt <dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
To: kwe@buitb.bu.edu, roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu, schoff@psi.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Roy,
I thought you got a pretty good answer if you could find it amongst all of
the Kent and Marty show.
If I understood correctly it was said that you would need a new local loop.
Some one would have to pay for the setup of that because the telephone company
doesn't do it for free. And you would want to overlap the services for such
reasons as the local loop isn't installed on schedule, it doesn't work right
after it is installed, routing needs to be changed to reflect the new situation,
.....
It sounds like something that you don't want to do every couple of months
just to save a few bucks by using the most recent introductory rate from
the new provider in town who is trying to build market share.
/dan
