[11143] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John [Francis] Stracke)
Tue Mar 22 19:57:47 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 10:56:45 +0500
From: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Simon Poole's message of Mon, 21 Mar 1994 22:38:43 +0100 (MET) <199403212140.WAA11360@chsun.eunet.ch>
>For AOL and CompuServe $10k is small change, and they are in a position
>where they can negotiate favorable settlement anyway.
I'd disagree. The online services want to get to the Net; nobody on
the Net is particularly hot for the onlines. The difference is that
(to my knowledge) the onlines are only giving their customers access
to Net resources, not giving the Net access to their resources. The
only exception is email (and many would rather see those people
migrate to shell accounts with normal addresses and mailers ;-). So
the onlines probably don't have a lot of clout when negotiating with
NSPs. It'd be different if the services they were getting access to
weren't free, of course.
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