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In article <1992Dec16.195703.3561@mixcom.com> Dean.Roth <Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
>In <BzCKMp.uw@solaria.mil.wi.us> jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco) writes:
>
...
>data transfer (file or mail) to another company, either in the U.S. 
>or elsewhere in the world, to remain competitive. These businesses 
>cannot afford $1000 - $2000/month fee for a simple 14.4K SLIP link
>that most commercial providers want (usually $250/month plus a long
>distance telephone call) however, and would prefer to acquire the 
>service locally. (Or do not want to manage a computer and networking
>software themselves but want to pay someone else a fee to do that,
>and to use a BBS type of service.) There are probably several businesses.
>
>One option would be for interested parties to form an organzation
>that gets a 56K or T1 line and then divides that up into dedicated
>and on-demand dial-up IP service at 14.4K or 56K. Startup cost would
>be $50-$100K, with monthly operating costs probably near $1500-$2000,
>which does not consider any salaries or taxes that come with employees.
>Anyone interested? Anyone win the lottery recently?
>
>Dean

When I win I'll let you use my connection ... :-)

This subject keeps comming up now and then, wish we could come up with
a workable answer. 

WiscNet more or less put the plug in all the back-doors to the Internet.

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