The Great Exchange

Wed May 27 22:34:18 UTC 1998

In article <199805271744.NAA21312 at jekyll.piermont.com>,
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:
> In the long run, why are we assuming there will be locality of
> traffic?
> 
> It is true that the old PSTN has locality of traffic, but it doesn't
> have flat rate pricing, or the usage patterns that the Internet has.

Why are you assuming that the Internet will continue to have
non-distance-sensitive pricing, when it clearly has distance-
sensitive costs (ultimately)?
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