[714] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost Of TCP/IP Dialup Connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Gunshannon)
Fri May 17 12:18:16 1991
From: bill@tuatara.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
To: steve@cise.nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Date: Fri, 17 May 91 12:16:27 EDT
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9105171344.AA05481@cise.cise.nsf.gov>; from "Stephen Wolff" at May 17, 91 9:44 am
According to Stephen Wolff:
>
> Anybody who's "torn up their campus(es) to lay fiber" can take the cost of a
> T1 connection to a local Internet supplier out of petty cash!
>
We are (even as we speak) "tearing up our campus to lay fiber". I can assure
you it isn't being done out of petty cash. Our INTERNET link is a 56K leased
line to Ma Bell and is unlikely to get bigger any time in the near future.
bill
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