[533] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Who Are the Viable Bidders on the NSFnet Backbone This Fall?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net)
Fri Apr 5 03:52:32 1991
From: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Wed Apr 3 21:38:02 1991
<<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook 03-APR-91 21:38
cook@tmn
I have a question or two about who can really bid and under what
conditions on the Nsfnet backbone solicitation this fall? Of course
ANYONE can bid but who has a chance of a successful bid?
I have been told that AT&T being regulated has to come in with a bid that
reflects the rules of regulatory rate setting for this sort of thing.
That therefore it's bid was quite high last time and would be this time.
have I been told this correctly?
can we also assume that the RBOCs being prohibited from providing inter
lata services are also NOT viable bidders?
Who then is left? RCI? How big are they? Are they big enough to be
really viable?
GTE-Sprint? Don't they have the international contract for connecting the
NSFnet to the rest of the world? Would they really want to go after the
backbone itself?
Who then are the other telco's who could team up with a computer company
to bid against ANS?? Surely there at least 1 or 2 that don't come to mind?
