[10920] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin L. Schoffstall)
Mon Mar 14 16:56:26 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:46:00 +0000
From: "Martin L. Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Cc: sundar@ai.mit.edu, marty@psilink.com, fidelman@civicnet.org, jmm@merit.edu,
>
> When is Continental going to open their cable plant up to any and all
> comers?
>
Karl,
Sometimes you miss the forest for the trees. The answer is they have.
For the past 10 years (at least) providing "programming" to the physical
cable network has been problematic. Each programmer had protracted one on one
negotiations with each cable operator, all kinds of financial models were put
in place and the cost of doing business was enormous.
Now what Continental has done is allowed every Internet content provider to
provide payable or free content through its cable network.
This is revolutionary and did NOT require an act of congress.
Marty
