Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations

Fri Oct 25 18:59:35 UTC 1996

On Fri, 25 Oct 1996 alex at relcom.eu.net wrote:

> 1) In case if INTERNET split into US and EUrope parts withouth interconnection,
> no too many in USA will notice it, but INTERNET in Europe will die
> (moreover, computer's world will die too).

Don't you believe it.  Over the last year we have seen a steady downward
drift in the percentage of our traffic which goes to the US -- a 20% 
change over the last year, I think.  

> This explains why we (EUrope) pay for the inter-ocean links. It's reality.

No, it's inertia more than anything else.

> And  - YES, European's PTT is the worst example of the SOCIALISM.

Can't disagree with that, though ;-)

> Then it's became unlimited loop - IP in USA cost less because EUrope pay for it;
> that's why interesting services tends to locate in USA, that's why Europe
> have to pay for the links, that's why new servers are allocated in USA
> where the cost of Internet is less, and so on... -:)

If you look at the commercial realities, most UK companies putting up 
Web sites are looking for customers in the UK.  We are seeing more and
more companies who are actually looking for customers in their own 
region: Bristol companies looking for Bristol customers, not UK 
customers, certainly not American customers.  This is the way that we
see the Net evolving: more and more traffic will be local.

I think that you are talking more about Eastern Europe, which is several
years behind.  

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