Re: UKNM: Free ISPs Vs. Paying ISPs (Don't Mention Dixons)

[azeem azhar]

At 04:40 06/10/98 -0700, Sajid Mohammed wrote:


>Personally, I just want super-fast access. Any ISP that wanted to

>offer me a dirt-cheap ISDN or leased line would get my interest - but

>I can't see that happening anytime soon.


mmmm . . . Enterprise: bonded ISDN for 10 quid a month; Frontier bonded

ISDN for 240 quid a year; Freeserve bonded-ISDN for nothing a month.

How cheap do you want it to get?


As for super-fast, you'll be sorely disappointed with bonded-ISDN. what's

more interesting is the one second connection time.


>It may even come to pass that most paying ISPs mutate/aggregate into

>business-to-business services organisations, offering large scale

>connectivity for companies tied into bespoke Intranet/Extranet

>solutions using Notes/Domino or whatever - leaving the free ISPs to

>the consumers.


except that very very many of the smaller ISPs do not run much of their own

network  rather use vPOPs provided by Energis etc. It's not clear how many

actually have WAN intergration skills, let alone the cash to do the sorts

of investments you'd need for the above. 


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