[129812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Sep 20 14:44:18 2010
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:44:07 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C28405EBA09@ex-mb-2.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 9/20/10 11:38 AM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
>> Devil's Advocate here,
>>
>> What would you say to ISP A that provided similar speeds as ISP B,
>> but B took payments from content providers and then provided the
>> service for free?
>>
>> Gives you the choice, ISP A, which costs, and ISP B, which is free,
>> and most people wouldn't know the difference.
>>
>> ~J
>
> I would say that it's an interesting and unprecedented (to my
> knowledge) model. Could be an interesting business plan. I'm not
> sure if it's realistically viable, and it's certainly a risky
> proposition, but it's definitely unusual.
It is called netzero... state of the art 1998 business model...
advertisers pay for the right to spew crap at cheapskate modem users.
> Nathan
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