[10501] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Horton)
Fri Feb 25 15:54:50 1994
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 09:15:51 -0500 (EST)
From: James Horton <horton@cftnet.com>
To: James Love <love@essential.org>
Cc: welch@oar.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9402231328.E8699-0100000@essential>
Flat rate Internet, via CFTnet, access is currently available
in Tampa Florida. CFTnet provides a ppp connection, unlimited email,
netnews, compilers, disk space, and a Large scratch partition for
temporary disk storage, all for $10 per month. NO OTHER FEES.
WE have built our own system, which is designed for CO-location
in telco-POPS, i.e.48VDC, whick house lots of V.32bis modems,
router card, Unix mother boards, dsu/csu, ups, and a remote
control panel to cycle power on any unit that fails.
What is needed is GROUPSP of individuals to bring together
a minimum block of customers in the local dialing area so
CFTnet has a 'break-even' operation for a given community.
Soon we will include the EMAIL-FAX gateway technology of the
tpc-rp experiment, so indiviuals and businesses can send long-
distance faxes, at no additional cost.
Furthermore CFTnet is developing the ability to 'mux-out' the voice
portion of voice-over-data modems, so the voice packets can travel
long distances, at no additional cost.
CFTnet is waiting on RF chip sets so wireless point-to-point
broadband data link can be established, without participation of
the lecd political damon.
The most productive thing for the loud-mouths to do, and really
the only piece of needed in the USA, is this:
A constitutional amend which limits the maximun sum of all
telco-communication-services taxes at 1.000%
The maximum limit of the local government should be 0.250%
The maximum limit of the state government should be 0.250%
The maximum limit of the federal government should be 0.500%
Total maximum tax 1.000%
even in the event of National emergency, like WAR.
All of the rest of the dribblings on this list just drive away
persons of ability.
Competition, new chipsets, and the proliferation of excellent,
free software will take care of the rest of our needs.
James Horton
President of Creative Friendly Technologies
easy on the flames, I use filters: both hardware and software!
horton@cftent.com
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