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- From: raisch@Control.COM (Robert Raisch)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.access.wanted
- Subject: Re: Justification for commercial access to INTERNET facilities?
- Message-ID: <2745@cthulhuControl.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:58:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.170033.6187@nwnexus.WA.COM> <1e6qtsINN963@nigel.msen.com>
- Organization: Control Technology Corp., Hopkinton MA
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- emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
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- >Ralph Sims (ralphs@halcyon.com) wrote:
- >
- >> As a commercial site, I pay rather substantial fees to my service
-
- >I am curious what these 'royalties' are, how much you pay them, and
- >who the money is actually going to...
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- I do not know the connection strategy of halcyon, but NEARnet has penned a
- rather substantial agreement with ANS, (the provider of the NSFnet infra-
- structure hardware and management) to have ANS shuffle NEARnet's commercial
- traffic over the same wires/equipment as the NSFnet. It costs something
- like $2K for a site to use this "commercial routing feature" of NEARnet's
- service offering which I believe goes directly to ANS. </rr>
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- -- </rr>
- As a matter of conscience, I will no longer support any business in Colorado.
-