[662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Funding for NAPs...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Sat Oct 7 19:08:05 1995
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 19:00:49 -0500
To: Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>
From: jgs@aads.net (John G. Scudder)
Cc: mdz@netrail.net (Matt Zimmerman), nanog@merit.edu
At 11:02 PM 10/6/95, Dave Siegel wrote:
>The NAP providers (Ameritech, Sprint, and PacBell) do get some government
>money. As with all government funding, there is red tape, such as
>providing services to R&E type stuff.
Ameritech doesn't receive any government funding for the Chicago NAP. I
believe that Bellcore receives some government funding.
I don't think that Sprint or PacBell get any government $$ either, but they
should confirm or deny that themselves.
--John
