[9930] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IIA Breaks Out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Tully)
Thu Jan 27 12:45:48 1994
From: tully@cscns.com (Ed Tully)
To: postman@lists.psi.com (Lisa Losito)
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 10:41:19 MST
Cc: brock@well.sf.ca.us, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9401271128.A12037-0100000@access1.digex.net>; from "Lisa Losito" at Jan 27, 94 12:24 pm
I really don't want to advertise here, but I cannot keep my fingers off
the keys. The debbil made me do it! we sure are a helluva
lot less expensive than these guys for our 800 service - like 50% less!
Ed Tully
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> On Wed, 26 Jan 1994, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
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> > Jacking in from the "You Gotta See This to Believe It" Port:
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> > Money for Nothing and the Bits Are Free
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> > Washington, DC -- Here's the deal: The Internet is being held hostage by a
> > community of entrenched techno-elitists.
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> Brock, you've made my day...and I'm sure the rest of the
> "Techno-elitists" holding the Internet hostage with guns
> aimed at critical routers are equally amused.
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> Am I missing something? $12 per hour for 800 service...Holonet for example
> charges (says the O'reilly book) between $2.00 and $8.00 per hour for PDN
> service, and between $2 and $4 per hour in fees. At it's highest
> that equals $12 per hour during peak, right? Such a deal...PDN's aren't
> everywhere though. $8-10 dollar/hr for 800 service and $20 per month account
> fees seem pretty typical (dial-n-cerf, jvnc). My math skills seem a bit weak,
> but I don't see a clear saving if I use more than a couple of hours per month.
> If I check my mail for 20 minutes a day, IIA exactly matches what you can
> already get elsewhere. Sounds terribly philanthropic to me. They donate a
> portion of their income to buy Internet access for starving Sudanese children I
> guess.
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> > The organization was swamped with applications, some 40,000 have flooded
> > in since November, Robbins said. But only 16,000 have actually been given
> > accounts. He says they're working on the backlog.
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> If I have to wait for IIA to liberate me, guess I'll be waiting a long
> time. I'm sure this means if I have a problem they'll be REAL easy to reach
> by phone. Just the way to introduce the "unwashed masses" to the
> terrifying Internet environment. I'm sure the average citizen would be
> able to use the Internet just fine without having anyone to answer
> questions like :" How do I turn on my modem?"
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> I'm so disappointed, they promised us DC folks THOUSANDS of free local
> dialins. Guess it's easier to promise then deliver. I was even going to
> learn to MUD just for the occasion. ;)
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> Lisa Losito
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Ed Tully
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