[10932] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The FCC strikes the Internet (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Tue Mar 15 01:00:15 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 16:38:38 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 7:34 AM 3/14/94 -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
>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.
Actually, it would make more sense (based on Barry's and your scenarios) to
require NSF to sell 56kb or frac-T1 access to all comers -- individuals,
businesses, resellers. Then we'd all be able to benefit by the presence of
NSFnet to rural colleges.
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Glenn Tenney
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