[664] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Funding for NAPs...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Stratton)
Sat Oct 7 22:36:35 1995
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 22:40:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
To: cook@cookreport.com
cc: "John G. Scudder" <jgs@aads.net>, Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>,
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951007205615.18763M-100000@tigger.jvnc.net>
On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, Gordon Cook wrote:
> That is correct..... Pac bell and Ameritech bid zero cost because they
> get income from the NAPs by charging people to attach. bellcore gets a
> small piece of change for providing research coordination with the two rbocs.
How is MFS and Ameritech making money at the NAP's then? $2,000 to
connect to MAE-East including telco is vary good. How do they make money
at that?
-Nathan
