[10964] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willard Dawson)
Wed Mar 16 20:15:33 1994
From: wdawson@willard.atl.ga.us (Willard Dawson)
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 00:30:57 GMT
Apparently-To: com-priv@psi.com
walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.COM writes:
>>Date: Mon, 7 Mar 94 20:37:26 EST
>>From: mstrange@fonorola.net (Micheal Strangelove)
>>To: com-priv@psi.com
>>Subject: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
>>
>>As this list is populated by the best and the brightest internet providers,
>>it is well suited to handle a question I keep getting asked every day:
>>
>>how long will it be until mosiac style internet interfaces are the
>>most common form of internet access?
>I think the answer hinges on local-loop monopoly pricing: Mosaic won't be a
>standard internet interface until most people can do a PPP dial-in to their
>nearest ISP at rates more like $0.01/min than the current $0.10-0.15/min
>that they are currently faced with in most locales...
Actually, Mosaic is possible even with only a "normal" dialup shell
account, so long as one has term + the term-hacked version of Mosaic.
Unfortunately, certain providers feel this is an unfair usage of their
normal accounts, and specifically prohibit it.
But, my only point is that Mosaic does not require special access.
Actually, another point might be that Mosaic, and WWW in general are not
really a universal solution to the multimedia Internet... especially
given the licensing issues that seem to plague the Motif area lately.
