[52397] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AP IX locations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian Kim)
Sun Sep 29 16:52:07 2002
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 16:50:39 -0400
From: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
To: Barry Raveendran Greene <bgreene@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <LNEHJBNJAPFNLEGJHCPEIEPGJBAA.bgreene@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 01:27:38PM -0700, Barry Raveendran Greene wrote:
> 1:1 figure for people age 18 - 60. Add these indicators to the fact that
> most of the Internet market dominating companies are the old PTTs. All these
> PTT (control freaks) are now Telcos (out to maximize share holder profit).
> All of them took a lot of hard knocks in the early years, learned from their
> mistakes, and now know where their markets are now going. So instead of
> dealing with clueless Asian PTTs in 1995 you are dealing with really clueful
> IP savvy Telcos in 2002. IP savvy Telcos who are members of the
> trans-oceanic cable businesses and are the ones buying up the excess
> capacity built by the failed "independent" trans-oceanic cable businesses.
And speaking of control.. don't expect those PTTs to give up control
(i.e. peering) in their home markets easily.
-dorian
