[979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bell vs. Internet Providers (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rashid Karimov)
Fri Nov 10 09:43:33 1995
From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com>
To: pferguso@cisco.com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:31:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199511101157.DAA12735@lint.cisco.com> from "Paul Ferguson" at Nov 10, 95 06:59:46 am
Hi there folx,
>
>
> >From the 'For What Its Worth' Department.
>
> - paul
>
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> BELL VS. INTERNET PROVIDERS
> Bell Canada plants to increase line rate charges for Internet service
> providers by as much as 400%, saying the higher charge is necessary because
> those providers use lines for 55 to 60 minutes every hour compared with
> voice usage on a Centrex line of about 10 minutes. The service providers
> say the move aims to eliminate competition for Bell when it introduces its
> Worldlinx Internet access by the end of this year. (Montreal Gazette 9 Nov
> 95 D7)
The same outrages story is going on in Russia ... they're trying
to force ppl. with modems pay 2-5 times more for the telephone
service.
Scumbugs even designed devices to listen periodically to the
random lines in the TelCo COs , trying to get a modem carrier.
And if they find one , they put some kind of filter on that
line which makes impossible to use the modem - till you
pay the dough
I think that it is the point in certain other countries
with state/one company monopoly in communications.
Rashid
