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

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From: Sean Donelan
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:00
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In article <54ql95$7pv@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, booloo@cats.ucsc.edu (Mark Boolootian) writes:
> By the way, Bell Atlantic completed a study earlier this year which basically 
> provides hard evidence of the load ISPs are imposing on their system (which 
> was engineered with a different set of use patterns in mind).  You can read 
> the report at:  http://www.ba.com/ea/fcc/report.htm

For an alternate point of view of whether or not the telephone companies
are losing money on this, see their press releases about last quarter's
earnings.  Most of the RBOCs were crowing how many second phone lines they
sold, which seem to be much more profitable than 'first' phone lines.

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
  Affiliation given for identification not representation
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From: sean@sdg.dra.com (Sean Donelan)
Subject: Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
Date: 1996/10/26
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