[8370] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: WSJ Technology supplement
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Tue Nov 16 11:08:20 1993
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1993 17:06:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <9311161530.AA07898@acrab25.ecrc>
To: Dave Morton <Dave.Morton@ecrc.de>, stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
On Nov 16, 16:30, Dave Morton wrote:
>[stpeters:]
> >The RIPE count includes Iceland, which I left out; I wasn't sure whether
> >it should be counted as part of "Europe". RIPE also includes Tunisia,
I'm pretty sure the Icelanders consider themselves European. EUnet
in Iceland has one customer site per 4700 inhabitants, BTW.
> >which I'm sure isn't Europe ... but it's count is zero now anyway.
>
> Well I'm not so sure about Tunisia, sure it's Africa but in the absence
> of seperate authority for Africa apart from the Internic and RIPE I believe
> that the RIPE NCC caters for their needs right now. So that's why the
Just for general information, since this is a fun topic: EUnet
connects networks in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt (as well as
the rest of Europe); in the near future, Ghana will also be
reachable. Tunisia had IP-connectivity via X.25 until a month or two
ago, but lost it. They're currently awaiting installation of a
19.2kbit line to EUnet in France.
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