Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11

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From: John Navas
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:00

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dillon@best.com (Matthew Dillon) wrote:

>    PacBell is basically just being greedy little asses.  They know damn
>    well that what people want is to simply be 'connected'.    Those people 
>    are not necessarily *using* the bandwidth all that time, but PacBell
>    refuses to provide any kind of out-of-band packet service via ISDN that
>    would lead to, easily, a 10x savings in bandwidth, and could be sold
>    at the same price current unmetered residential service is sold at or
>    cheaper.

Amen.  All one need do is look at the price of frame relay.  And if the
cable industry weren't so damn incompetant and monopolistic itself it would
stomp all over PacBell.  But I fear that our only hope for real competition
is wireless (probably some form of advanced spread spectrum), and it's still
many years away from reality.

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From: JNavas@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US (John Navas)
Subject: Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
Date: 1996/10/29
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