[10379] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Privatization of the Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Sun Feb 20 14:46:26 1994
To: love@essential.org (James Love)
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 20:46:09 +0100 (MET)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9402201456.A8208-0100000@essential> from "James Love" at Feb 20, 94 02:07:56 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
> In our view, the Internet pricing of email and file transfers is
> key to this enormously successful model for civic discourse and
> democratic debate. Are we going to lose that in the future, or
> are things just going to get better?
The fundamental problem with your question, is that there is -no-
universal Internet pricing model. While it might be common to
charge flat rate on connection bandwidth or perhaps on connect
time, charging on volume (and for e-mail) does exist.
Right now, speaking for my company, I can see no reason at all why
our pricing strategy should change as a result of a reduction in
funding of the NSFnet by NSF.
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