[11166] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: What is an "Internet reseller"?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Wed Mar 23 19:10:59 1994
To: francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 08:06:38 +0100 (MET)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403221556.AA07442@avalle.insoft.com> from "John [Francis] Stracke" at Mar 22, 94 10:56:45 am
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
John Stracke writes:
>
> >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.
I can assure you that it would cause an upheavel if we lost e-mail
connectivity to CompuServe. They only have to procede in an intelligent
fashion, pick off the NSP's one by one and they would get the bilateral
agreements. It's not a question of what we as NSP's would like to see,
it's a question of the connectivity our customers require.
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