[551] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 204.82.160.0/22 invisible
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kai)
Mon Sep 25 20:13:15 1995
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:08:55 -0400
From: Kai <kai@belcom.net>
To: bertolini@computel.com, concaj@belcom.net, donagm@belcom.net,
ilya@phri.nyu.edu, ken@belcom.net, khalfk@belcom.net,
ladycom@computel.com, nanog@MERIT.EDU, smd@icp.net, smd@sprint.net,
susan.evans@SPRINT.SPRINT.COM
Resent-From: nanog@MERIT.EDU
Vadim wrote:
>>kai@belcom.net
>> Ask us about Internet service in the CIS!
>> Bringing Internet, where there is none
>What a piece of "truth in advertisement".
>--vadim
>(the guy who coined the word RELCOM if you didn't know).
I know very well, Vadim. But wherever I look (outside of say Moscow
and St. Petersburg) there is nothing but 19.2K lines connecting entire
cities. I wouldn't call that "Internet", but "laggy connectivity, enabling
mail and Usenet". A far cry from telnet,ftp,WWW.
And the last time I checked, BelCom was serving areas as a turn-key
telecommunications carrier that weren't even on Russian (pre-1986) maps,
and you had to drive a few 100 miles to get a working phone there, not even
talking about one that you can call abroad with.
You remember that too well, I guess.
