[665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Funding for NAPs...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Sat Oct 7 23:08:06 1995
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 23:04:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gordon Cook <gcook@tigger.jvnc.net>
Reply-To: cook@cookreport.com
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
Cc: cook@cookreport.com, "John G. Scudder" <jgs@aads.net>,
Dave Siegel <dsiegel@rtd.com>, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@netrail.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951007223941.14275A-100000@netrail.net>
I didn't say they are making a profit. I don't KNOW if they are making a
profit. They do charge money to attach as does MFS.
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On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> 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
>
