[10824] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: How Long to a Multimedia Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Fri Mar 11 02:07:16 1994
To: walkerl@iscmed.med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, gwh@crl.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Mar 1994 09:58:28 CST."
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 15:08:02 -0800
From: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>
[...]
>So inside area codes like 312 and 212 and 202 it's nivana; for us outcast
>area codes, the only affordable option is dial-up command-line Unix?
The question is not "can there be affordable
access in the outcast area codes". There can be.
Amazingly small communities can support POPs for
providers with 14.4/soon-to-be-V.fast SLIP etc..
The question is When. Given a fixed POP cost,
which is approxomately accurate, providers are
jumping to try and cover all the _huge_ markets
before we chase off and put something in everyone's
back yard. Barring a few tens of millions of dollars
in capital infusions in the shell/slip provider
it's going to be a little while before there's
really great geographical coverage.
-george william herbert
