[11060] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Sirbu)
Sat Mar 19 03:04:53 1994
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 20:51:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <12054.764025208@apple.com>
Excerpts from internet.com-priv: 18-Mar-94 What is an "Internet resell..
by "Erik E. Fair"@apple.com
> This whole mess comes about because NSP's will not engineer their
> networks to carry the total aggregate inputs - too expensive. So, they
> guess at an average usage per customer, and then frantically restrict
> anything that violates that assumption, with lots of handwaving.
This is an inevitable result of flat rate pricing. If they priced by
usage, the would be encouraging high volume resellers instead of
discouraging them.
