[707] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Let 100 Backbones Bloom!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Thu May 16 18:20:53 1991
Date: Thu, 16 May 91 17:19:56 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Lyle Seaman's message of Thu, 16 May 91 10:04:22 EDT <9105161404.AA01010@capybara.comm.wang.com>
lws@capybara.comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) writes:
If AT&T were not forced to allow MCI users (eg) to call AT&T users,
I don't think MCI would be in business.
I think I read once that people used to have to have two phones, Home
and Bell: Home was the local telco, Bell was the long-distance.
We might end up with a fragmented Net, with some sites having to
connect with two providers to reach everyone. Of course, then
somebody would set up a relay....
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