[10521] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill to insure flat rate Internet email pricing (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles R Fidelman)
Sat Feb 26 07:57:47 1994
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 15:31:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.07.9402250933.A3919-c100000@tech>
On Fri, 25 Feb 1994, James Horton wrote:
> 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.
>
Except...
$.015 per minute for local dialup if you're on a business line (that's
$35/week for a 40-hour week, a lot more if you work late or want to run a
24-hour server) -- [these are NYNEX rates in Boston]
the regulatory issues have to do with local loop costs, not the Internet
per se -- and since folks like Prodigy show up at regulatory hearings
pushing for better local rates, why shouldn't we have a voice
and... you obviously have an Internet vendor who allows you to resell
access, the NSFnet regional around hear tends to discourage it, and there
is only one national vendor who is easy to deal with on resale -- to have
a level playing field for entrepreneurial service offerings, the big guys
who control key pieces of the net need to be kept in check sometimes
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