Bell vs. Internet Providers (fwd)

Per Gregers Bilse bilse at EU.net
Fri Nov 10 19:43:44 UTC 1995


On Nov 10, 13:23, Jeff.Ogden at um.cc.umich.edu <Jeff.Ogden at um.cc.umich.edu> wrote:
> It is possible that modem calls are a bad deal for phone companies, but
> it is also possible they are a good deal. Does anyone really know?

Tuppence worth: A largish Scandinavian PTT evaluated their costs
a couple of years ago and found that the call setup cost them on the
order of USD 1.50 and the conversation practically nothing (this is
from speaking to one of their senior tech people).  This may be
ignoring the fact that if the conversation is "free", then people
(and modems) tend to talk longer, but they actually wanted to change
their charging structure to match, but the regulators refused.

Umm ... what is com-priv stuff doing on NANOG?

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