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The price of Internet - research

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From: Miha Amon
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00
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Hi!                                                            ______ 
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I am doing a brief (but international!)                             ||
         ** research of Internet access prices **                   ||
                     for home modem users in different countries.   ||
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For example, here in Slovenia (for more info on Slovenia connect to ||
http://www.ijs.si/slo.html) where I come from,  the Internet access ||
is rather expensive  feature -- at least I  think so.  The  average ||
price of PPP or SLIP access is around 30 USD (or 4000 SIT-Slovenian ||
Tolar  is  the local  currency.)  for  10  hours  per month.  Every ||
additional hour costs 5 USD.                                        ||
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Please fill-in the following research form in order to help me with ||
the research. If you will be interested in the results, I will post ||
them to this newsgroup.                                             ||
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Send me the form back through                                       ||
                    the e-mail to Miha.Amon@guest.arnes.si          ||
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THE RESEARCH FORM                                            |__\
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Important!  Please  convert  the  prices  from  local  currency  to
US Dollars. If you don't know the exact  answer, please try to make 
an estimation and notify this with a "~" mark e.g. ~50 USD.  If you 
really  don't know the answer, don't feel guilty for not  answering 
it :). Just answer what you know.


1)  Where are you from? (Country) >... 
2)  How many companies provide Internet services in your country? 
    Approx. >...
3)  Do you know the average price for monthly PPP or SLIP access in 
    your country? (How much? In USD) >...
4)  Which Internet services do you have access to? 
    (please put in a (*) mark)

    ( )SLIP, ( )PPP, ( )Telnet, ( )FTP, 
    ( )Text WWW(e.g.Lynx),      ( )Other >...

5)  Are there any special terms e.g. limited time, limited bytes,
    ten hours per month for fixed price and have to pay for every 
    aditional hour  etc.?
    >...
6)  What is the maximum baud rate of modem connection? >...
7)  How many modem ports does your Internet provider have? >...
8)  What is the speed (in kbps) of your provider's international 
    link? >...
9)  How much do you pay for these services per month? (In USD)
    >...

10) THX in advance!  (Don't forget to reply! Miha.Amon@guest.arnes.si)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    (Please reply only once!)


Bye, bye...    MihA.
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From: Miha.Amon@guest.arnes.si (Miha Amon)
Subject: The price of Internet - research
Date: 1995/10/31
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