[46311] in Cypherpunks
Re: Guerilla Internet Service Providers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Monta)
Tue Jan 2 20:52:33 1996
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 09:51:24 PST."
<m0tXAsV-00090IC@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 17:40:33 -0800
From: Peter Monta <pmonta@qualcomm.com>
> It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for
> Internet access, when they shouldn't really be. The main asset telephone
> companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY. Put an ISP in a business
> park that allows you to run your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've
> bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges.
>
> At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be
> "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The
> phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the
> supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area.
For the "last mile" to the ISP user, wireless could be a better bet.
Have antenna, will surf.
(Not speaking for Qualcomm, etc.)
Peter Monta pmonta@qualcomm.com
Qualcomm, Inc./Globalstar
