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Re: ISP consolidation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Nielsen)
Wed Apr 10 00:21:52 1996

Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:17:58 -0600 (MDT)
From: Christian Nielsen <cnielsen@vii.com>
To: Srinivasarao Mulugu <smulugu@sprint.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960409215231.13052B-100000@mercury.sprintlink.net>

On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, Srinivasarao Mulugu wrote:

> Well, one study I came across talks about a major shake-out over 
> the next few years resulting in about 200 ISPs by 2000. It projects
> a decline in the number of ISPs beginning early 1997.

	Now that we are talking about studies, I have read that the 
number will drop by the end of this year. This will be because of the 
number of ISPS that can't handle tech support for their customers, new 
stuff coming to the market, or even handle the demands of UNIX...
	
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