[9355] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael P. Martineau)
Thu Dec 30 08:02:07 1993
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 08:53:42 -0400
To: "Russell Nelson" <nelson@crynwr.com>
From: martinea@hawk.nstn.ns.ca (Michael P. Martineau)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
At 09:56 PM 12/29/93 EST, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
>Well, what about our situation here in Potsdam, NY? (did I say that
>there are more cows than people? Well, there are more cows than
>people here.) There is no local-call dialup IP service. I've asked
>PSI to do it, and all they've said is "eventually". So far,
>"eventually" is >2 years. Problem is that two full-time dialup IP
>customers only pays the cost of PSI's leased line (and uses up half
>of the bandwidth).
NSTN Inc. provides services across the province of Nova Scotia, a small
Canadian province with a population of about 900,000 people. Across Nova
Scotia we currently have 9 Points of Presence in place, with plans for at
least two more. For dial-up individual SLIP access we charge $5/hr (days),
$1/hr (Night), with a minimum $25/mo. charge. For us to maintain such
prices, we must be able to capture a large share of the Nova Scotia market.
Hence, we are very reluctant to permit resale of our services.
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