[460] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
How will CIX affect rates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Grimm)
Wed Mar 27 17:17:50 1991
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 14:13:07 PST
From: koreth@EBay.Sun.COM (Steven Grimm)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Ever since I read the CIX announcement, I've been wondering how this
interconnection might affect the price of hooking up to the commercial
internet. I can see (to my mind) equally good reasons for AlterNet,
PSI, and friends to raise, lower, or not change their rates. Will we
see a price war, like the U.S. long distance phone companies say they're
conducting? Or, now that there's essentially only one place to get
decent connectivity on a restriction-free net, will all the services
become more expensive?
I do think that this agreement is probably the most important development
in wide-area networking in quite some time, and I'm really happy to see
it.
(My hope is that the rates'll go down, so I can afford them on my own!)
-Steven Grimm
