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From: Greg Andrews
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 00:00

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For_Email@ddress.see.below_plea.se (Phil Koenig) writes:
>In article <36e3ee16.75374101@news.ncal.verio.com>, Usenet@NavasGrp.Dublin.CA.US 
>[snip]
>> >Are consumers going to want bandwidth charges, or would they prefer
>> >restrictions on types of equipment to be served by the connection?
>> >"Neither" is not a workable answer.
>> 
>> Consumers already have bandwidth charges.  You're in effect just arguing
>> that the charges are too low.  My counter is that the free market will set
>> the price, now that we finally have a measure of free market competition.
>
>
>This reasoning only works if the upstream providers (ie ISPs) 
>are also somehow benefitting from this "free market".
>
>Last I heard, T-1 etc. connections to major backbone providers 
>were going UP in price, not down.
>

Really?  Quest (or is it Qwest?) isn't offering high-speed
connections for less than Alternet/Sprint/GTE, etc.?


  -Greg

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