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Article #102Re: ISP charges in Australia
From: Stephen Withers
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 00:00
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In article <32094289.152186142@news.ozemail.com.au>, spr@ozemail.com.au (Stephen Reynolds) wrote: > While I agree that cost of telephone calls contributes to the cost of > my Internet access, and in Oz local calls are great value, it has > nothing to do with my ISP. But it does! If you're prepared to spend say $50 per month on Internet access, this is divvied up between the ISP and the telco. The less the telco charges you, the more the ISP can charge. Some pies aren't big enough to divide this way, which is one reason why Viatel was less than a commercial success. Also, the bigger the local call radius, the fewer POPs the ISP needs, reducing its costs. Stephen Withers
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f7e6c,85bfaa83e3c331ae X-Google-Attributes: gidf7e6c,public X-Google-Thread: 103b3f,85bfaa83e3c331ae X-Google-Attributes: gid103b3f,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,85bfaa83e3c331ae X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: swithers@ozemail.com.au (Stephen Withers) Subject: Re: ISP charges in Australia Date: 1996/08/08 Message-ID: <swithers-0808961434430001@news.ozemail.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 172836155 references: <3207cdf0.56786710@news.ozemail.com.au> <4ua2vp$f6t@news.mel.aone.net.au> <32094289.152186142@news.ozemail.com.au> organization: Black and Write newsgroups: ozemail.users,soc.culture.australian,aus.general