[2158] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: low-end users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vince Fuller)
Tue Jan 28 20:17:59 1992
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 92 17:16:24 PST
From: Vince Fuller <vaf@Valinor.Stanford.EDU>
To: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Cc: dcrocker@Mordor.Stanford.EDU, rma@tsar.cc.rochester.edu, bjp@sura.net,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 28 Jan 92 18:26:33 -0500
I could easily throw a stat-mux with a leased line (or similar) into a
local public school or library and put 32 lines into my system for,
well, not a whole lot of money. Probably $5K startup and around
$500-$1000/month for relatively unlimited use, per site, plus some
infrastructure costs (e.g. a T1 to the internet for this purpose, a
couple of staff members.) That could support 500 people easily, so
under $5/month/person I'll guess wildly (I suppose in the startup you
need the cost of PC's or equivalent if they don't have them, many K12
schools certainly do have them already.)
Hmm. From what I recall of our talks with public schools and libraries, they
do NOT consider $500-$1000/month cheap (even if it does translate into only
$5/month/person). I suspect they'd rather hear numbers more like $1000/YEAR
for a link to the Internet (which is close to our current low-end offering)
--Vince
