[10916] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The FCC strikes the Internet (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Mon Mar 14 12:58:26 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 07:34 EST
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: bzs@world.std.com
Cc: love@essential.org, amr@isoc.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <199403140031.AA24639@world.std.com> (bzs@world.std.com)
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 19:31:45 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
It wouldn't be difficult to argue that at some point some NSF funding
has had an adverse impact on internet connection pricing as commercial
providers matured. For example, if you are in a smallish town where
there are some university, govt, research or other non-commercial
sites who are connected via various NSF fundings then likely they've
(NSF) gotten all the critical mass in that town that might also
provide for public access. But NSF can't sell public access.
Barry is right on the money here. Potsdam and Canton, NY, are another
perfect example. You've got Clarkson University and Potsdam College
(SUNY), and St. Lawrence University and Canton College (SUNY). All
have 56Kb connections, and none can sublet due to AUP.
If, on the other hand, they had to buy their connections on the open
market, someone would ALREADY have run a T-1 line up here. The colleges
would have frac-T1, and businesses like mine would have cheap 56Kb lines.
And, because the college community has their Internet access, there isn't
much separate demand for Internet access, so it's not affordable to run
a separate 56Kb line up here for small businesses and individuals to
access (mostly due to telco charges).
So nuke NSFnet, and nuke the telco monopoly.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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