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IP: SF Chron reports students asked to pay for Internet
From: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 13:29:56 -0500
From: Craig Partridge <craig () aland bbn com> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 95 09:46:05 -0800 Today's San Francisco Chronicle reports that U.C. Berkeley and the California State University System have both signed with ISPs to provide Internet accounts to their students. The Berkeley deal is with NETCOM and is a supplement to Berkeley's free dial-in service, which apparently is overloaded and oversubscribed. The idea is that if students want better service, they sign up with NETCOM (the deal is $14.95 per month for 40 hours of primetime and unlimited off-peak time). The CSU deal (with Sprint) is less clearly described but sounds like rather than wire campuses, CSU is saying go buy an account from Sprint. (Pricing is $12.50 per month for 70 hours of prime time and 90 hours non-prime time per month). The article states that other universities (Stanford and Harvard) are named, are also looking into such deals. (As a Stanford-affiliated person, this is the first I've heard of it for Stanford, and I'd be surprised if this were true, as Stanford has wired all dorms with Ethernet and the net seems to have capacity, so demand for additional service is presumably low. Similarly, all houses and halls at Harvard are or will soon be, fully wired. And for both Harvard and Stanford, all or almost all undergrads live on campus). Still, as a way of off-loading costs of maintaining a campus network, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the start of a trend. Craig PS: On the same page (1st page of business section) it was pointed out that Netscape closed at 98 1/4 yesterday, which means the company is valued at $4 billion (yes, with a 'b'), more than such established companies as Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels and Nordstroms...
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