[9192] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: anyone for an Internet buying coop?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Mon Dec 20 16:44:36 1993
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: sechrest@jasmic.com
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 16:41:26 -0500 (EST)
Cc: fidelman@civicnet.org, nii_agenda@civicnet.org, com-priv@psi.com,
In-Reply-To: <9312181846.AA10968@ jasmic.jasmic.com > from "sechrest@jasmic.com" at Dec 18, 93 10:46:36 am
> Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org> writes:
>
> % There's been a lot of traffic recently about the difficulties small
> % Internet providers, FreeNets, etc. have in acquiring Internet service for
> % resale and/or at a good price. It strikes me that this indicates a crying
> % need for banding together to aggregate buying power.
>
> I wholly agree. Having a buying opportunity for IP resale is something
> that will help things.
I agree also, everyone add me to their list.... :-)
...
>
> % There are quite a few precendents for such things:
> %
> % - in the early days of electrification, rural communities often organized
> % their own electric coops to either build generators or generate enough
> % demand for commercial companies to enter their markets
>
> There was the Rural datafication conference in Chicago last year.
> It was a valuable experience for CICnet to put together. It would
> be valuable if we had a national Rural Datafication project.
>
> OSU CSOS is working to make the network accessible by rural Oregon.
> It would be nice to have a stronger national committment to this
> idea.
Miles and I were both there. It was a great conference.
...
> % for some of the upcoming Federal networking funds - as a way to defray
> % startup expenses and allow us to maintain a lower average price during
> % rampup.
This is great, but I would want to make sure it was in the vein of a
true grant without strings or restrictions attached.
> John Sechrest . Internet: sechrest@jasmic.com
> Jasmic Systems .
Thanks
sdw
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