connectivity outside the US

Sun Jun 1 07:25:35 UTC 1997

Hi all, 

I have been following this thread with some interest.  A few months ago a
friend of mine from Fore Systems told me about the 'ACTS' project. NASA and
Ohio-State and quite a few others were doing research into the Gigabit
Satelite Network. There was a test between Sony in Japan and I 'BELIEVE'
JPL in Pasadena of hight def video transmissions over an OC-3 circuit. I
heard something about a quasi commercial deployment of another ACTS
project. Anybody heard anything about this? If enough birds like ACTS were
sent up, this could be a boon for ISP's maybe. Of course I live in this
ideal world where everybody is reasonable, intelligent, and well yea I know
things are just quite the opposite. 

If MCI/AT&T/NTT/GTE put this into motion then were doomed, but if Hughes
(read someone who doesn't own an ISP yet) put one up, it might be a bit
more promising. Who knows...

comments, rants, flames? 
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From: Mark Ansboury <mansboury at yesvirtual.com>
To: Sean M. Doran <smd at clock.org>; avg at pluris.com; bgreene at cisco.com;
jesse at netthink.com
Cc: map at iphil.net; nanog at merit.edu; smd at clock.org
Date: Saturday, May 31, 1997 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: connectivity outside the US

>The only ISPs that can really afford to stay in the game
>in a big way "over the long haul" are now the carriers themselves. The
end
>result??? The marketing and pricing strategies of the ISP and market are
>being commercialized and in the overseas markets looking more like the
>pricing strategies of the typical telephone service offering.The cost for
>overseas cables are not going to be coming down in a big way over the
next
>couple of years. They will more likely go up. At least for our
foreseeable
>future. The next few years. The pent up demand is to great.
>

Now where is Judge Green (is he retired ?) when you need him?! Feds are
sleeping as usual....I usually don't like the Feds sticking their noses
into places, but I loath the telcos and their continuing lies and extortion
of consumers and businesses. Ack. I can't tell you how many times GTE
screwes everything up! 

Chris "Don't get me started bitching about telcos/carriers" 