[10921] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Two-way Internet service from Continental Cable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Mon Mar 14 17:49:19 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: schoff@psi.com (Martin L. Schoffstall)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 10:38:35 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, sundar@ai.mit.edu, marty@psilink.com, fidelman@civicnet.org,
In-Reply-To: <9403141046.AA00802@schoff230.herndon.psi.com> from "Martin L. Schoffstall" at Mar 14, 94 10:46:00 am
> >
> > 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
Ok, MCSNet wants access to Continental's cable to provide transport
services, just as PSI does, and at the same terms you have. Is there
a problem with this?
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