[10807] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Thu Mar 10 07:56:59 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: jim@tadpole.com (Jim Thompson)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 01:45:30 -0600 (CST)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com
In-Reply-To: <9403100012.AA10766@chiba.tadpole.com> from "Jim Thompson" at Mar 9, 94 06:12:31 pm
>
> > 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
You can get dial-up, heavy use SLIP and PPP from MCSNet, assuming you're a local
call from a POP, for $30 monthly right now.
This is <personal> service. If you want business class service you can obtain that
from us in the $125-150 range.
We also support 28.8kbps. Mosaic over THAT is almost as nice as an Ethernet link,
as you reach the point where inline graphics take as long to decode as they do to
transfer (this is the crossover for me anyway).
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