[9849] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Sizing the Internet Providers (comments)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Dern)
Mon Jan 24 07:59:25 1994
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 07:55:58 -0500
From: ddern@world.std.com (Daniel P Dern)
To: mlinksva@netcom.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Thanks for posting this. A few minor comments:
1) Two other important metrics for these folks are
Average (and peak) # of active users at any given time
# of users actively making use of "Internet" services, e.g.
Telnet, ftp, gopher to outside servers, IRC
2) A third important metric: these are 'total registered users'
.... the odds are good that a fair % of these users never actually
log in, equally, some login only 1 or 2x month (e.g., my own
use of CI$).
Lastly, the folks you've listed are for the most part "Internet
account" providers (some also do SLIP/PPP for individuals and
organizations, but that may not be in your figures), or even
'e-mail access to the net' (CompuServe, Prodigy, Genie, AOL...
yes, these are all in transition, but for the nonce they are
part of Matrix, not the Internet [IMHO] )
Daniel
Daniel Dern (ddern@world.std.com) Internet author & technology/business writer
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