[9331] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Wed Dec 29 16:32:21 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 16:26:11 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: matthew@echo.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
> From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
> > 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.
Matthew, somebody answered the part about the CIX: you only need to
pay the $10K if you sell to "multiple geographic areas".
It's an imperfect but well-intentioned answer that's adequate in
practice if interpreted reasonably liberally if, say, you happen to
live near a state line.
--
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
