[26140] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: some implications of provider scaling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Mon Dec 6 02:29:44 1999
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From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'Randy Bush'" <randy@psg.com>,
"'Alex Rubenstein'" <alex@nac.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:18:33 -0800
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> Behalf Of Randy Bush, Sent: Sunday, December 05, 1999 11:26 AM
> in the long run, this industry will be owned by a extremely
> few very large
> international players, all or almost all telephants.
I agree. The are many reasons for this, mostly dealing with sunk-cost
infrastructure and capitalization, awa grandfathered rights of way. MHSC.NET
lost its last residential customer, to the cable-modem guys, earlier this
year. We just couldn't touch their price/bandwidth price-point without
becoming a CLEC. I don't want to be a CLEC. MHSC remains an ISP, leaving the
IAP business to someone else.
