[12757] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: Ethernet to Home...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (UpdegraffW)
Sat May 28 01:12:50 1994
Date: 27 May 1994 09:21:10 U
From: "UpdegraffW" <UpdegraffW@mac.ripon.edu>
To: "com-priv" <com-priv@psi.com>, "George Herbert" <gwh@crl.com>
George,
I suspect the INITIAL percentage of the population might be on the order
of 1%. If you could offer such a service in Ripon, WI today, I believe I could
find you 100 users in a population of 8000 people. That's about 1.25% .
On the other hand, once the service is demonstrable and converts are made,
I believe the percentage could go much larger, perhaps to 5%. I don't envision
the service going much beyond that under current constraints which include the
presence of a home computer and a fair level of Internet literacy.
Obviously, the extent of participation will depend on the quality of
information that is available and the quality of the infrastructure itself.
-Bill Updegraff
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>From: George Herbert on Fri, May 27, 1994 8:28 AM
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Subject: Ethernet to Home...
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 00:01:04 -0700
>From: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
Just to bounce a concept off you, imagine that tomorrow I was to
announce a service provider selling 10BT ethernet connections from
your house to the internet (not shared lines, either, private) for
$100 install and $35/month. What percentage of the population would
buy the service? What if you add a $100 package with a cheap PC ethernet
card and IP software bundled and applications like Mosaic and FTP ...
-george william herbert
gwh@crl.com Speaking only for myself
