[10435] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (com-priv-forw@lists.psi.com)
Wed Feb 23 02:04:11 1994
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 02:04:09 EST
From: com-priv-forw@lists.psi.com
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Michael R Linksvayer writes:
>>
>>A few months ago I started trying to measure the size of Internet
>>providers in terms of numbers of accounts. A very crude measure, but it
>>is the most accessible data. I plan to eventually guesstimate revenues
>>as well.
>>
I dont know what crude methodology you used, but your guestimates of
dialup accounts serviced by CERFnet are off by a factor of 5 !
Further, cerf.net is not a provider ( CERFnet is ), nor is cerf.net
the only machine we use to provide Internet access, nor is it necessary
that all of our dialup IP users need accounts on hosts.
CERFnet offers dial up and dial up IP access to approx 4000 users.
If you are going to publish this data, I suggest you get in touch
with other providers as well to verify their information.
Best Regards
--pushpendra
Pushpendra Mohta pushp@cerf.net +1 619 455 3908
Director of Engineering pushp@sdsc.bitnet +1 800 876 2373
CERFnet
>>Updated versions of this data will be published in _Meta_, a for-profit
>>electronic magazine (finger me for more information). Please send me
>>any corrections and updates you wish to see reflected in this data.
>>
>>The following is copyright Michael R Linksvayer. Do not distribute
>>without permission.
>>
>>provider accounts certainty (a=certain - e=guess)
>>--------------- -------- -
>>compuserve.com 1500000 b
>>prodigy 950000 c
>>aol.com 550000 b
>>genie.geis.com 400000 c
>>delphi.com 100000 c
>>applelink 60000 c
>>netcom.com 13000 a
>>well.sf.ca.us 9000 b
>>world.std.com 7500 b
>>portal.com 3000 e
>>digex.net 2800 c
>>panix.com 1900 c
>>wixer.bga.com 1300 a
>>holonet.net 1100 d
>>neosoft.com 1100 c
>>mindvox.phantom 1000 e
>>cscns.com 900 c
>>demon.co.uk 900 d
>>cerf.net 800 c
