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In article <jwb.697420075@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au>, jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen) writes:
|> (a) what the bill is?

Jim,

AARNet pays the scheduled OTC fee for this service. The fee is $35,000
per month for a 512Kbps half circuit to the United States. The US half
circuit is funded through PACCOM, who act as a procurement vehicle for
NASA, the US Doe and the NSF. There is still extensive NASA support for
the US half circuit costs. In addition AARnet provides support to PACCOM
for the lease of the 512K US side half circuit at a level of $US 3,000 per month.

Given the extensive set of links being purchased through PACCOM the
prices are not at the scheduled single link fee level. I do not believe
the actual fee schedule paid by PACCOM in the US is publically
available, nor is it my decision whether the fee can be disclosed.

|> (b) where the shekels come from?

The total expenditure program for 1992 is some $2.8 million, the bulk
of which will be expended on the lease of communications services from
AOTC including the sums indicated above.

For 1992 AARNet is supported from four major areas:

  a) the universities (some 40% of total finding)
  b) The Australian Research Council (36%)
  c) CSIRO (11%)
  d) the Affiliate Membership program (13%)

It is only through the active support of the groups listed above that
AARNet is possible, and their support is gratefully acknowledged.

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