Funding for NAPs...
Gordon Cook
gcook at tigger.jvnc.net
Sun Oct 8 00:58:21 UTC 1995
That is correct..... Pac bell and Ameritech bid zero cost because they
get income from the NAPs by charging people to attach. bellcore gets a
small piece of change for providing research coordination with the two rbocs.
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On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, John G. Scudder wrote:
> At 11:02 PM 10/6/95, Dave Siegel wrote:
> >The NAP providers (Ameritech, Sprint, and PacBell) do get some government
> >money. As with all government funding, there is red tape, such as
> >providing services to R&E type stuff.
>
> Ameritech doesn't receive any government funding for the Chicago NAP. I
> believe that Bellcore receives some government funding.
>
> I don't think that Sprint or PacBell get any government $$ either, but they
> should confirm or deny that themselves.
>
> --John
>
>
>
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