[10799] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Thompson)
Thu Mar 10 02:37:03 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 18:12:31 +0600
From: jim@tadpole.com (Jim Thompson)
To: com-priv@psi.com, walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com
> I think the answer hinges on local-loop monopoly pricing: Mosaic won't be a
> standard internet interface until most people can do a PPP dial-in to their
> nearest ISP at rates more like $0.01/min than the current $0.10-0.15/min
> that they are currently faced with in most locales...
Assuming 30 days/month, this is $432.00/month. You can get
(full-time!) service for about 1/2 that *today*. There are a
lot of service providers out there at the $0.02/minute mark
for dial-up.
Not that Mosaic over 14.4k is much fun...
Jim
