[9328] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Wed Dec 29 15:40:41 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 12:29:53 -0800
From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com, emv@garnet.msen.com
> emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti):
>
> Find some small number of friends, incorporate, get a line to the
> Internet, get some modems for your own in-dials, and bring the
> cash price down yourself. (You are trading your time and effort
> and aggregation of circuits for money.) If there are busy signals
> you have only yourself and your colleagues to blame.
Right. And then find that you've now become an IP reseller,
so most of the current IP providers won't talk to you, except
for ANS (very expensive) or Sprint. And then find that since
you want AUP-free routing, your little effort has to join
the CIX, so you're out another $10,000 / year.
Oops. Ran out of money.
Wouldn't it be nice if there weren't such artifically-constructed
barriers to entry to IP resale, so that you really COULD get
together with your small number of friends and get a line and
share it?
-matthew kaufman
matthew@echo.com
