[825] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Commercial Interconnection-dinosaur in sheeps clothing or true player?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Mon Jun 10 11:50:23 1991
To: stev@ftp.com (stev knowles)
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jun 91 10:55:59 EDT."
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 11:17:51 -0400
From: "Martin Lee Schoffstall" <schoff@psi.com>
They have approached lots of organizations for retail connections,
I believe that they have sold one (Purdue?) meanwhile they take
down mega dollars from/for nsfnet, in addition they provide a wholesale
connection to Concert. The practicality is that they are a wholesaler
who wants to be a retailer.
As for subcontractors - I believe Merit does all operations, in the
relocation of Ithaca T1, MCI and IBM technicians were present with
PSI, Cornell, and NYTEL technicians. I have heard this is also true
on the T3 installs since then. Does ANS have any field technicians?
They do have outside sales.
So my statement stands.
Now whether this is important or not is a seperable argument.
Marty
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ANS so far is a wholesaler, and a wholesaler that uses subcontractors,
this is incorrect, they have already approached several comapnies in effort
for them to provide direct connections to the T3 network for them. their
sales folks alreaedy brag of getting someone connected directly to the T3
backbone.
this does not sound like a wholesaler working thru a sub to me.
