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Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () bifrost seastrom com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:58:57 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:44:51 +0100 (BST) From: Jim Dixon <jdd () vbc net> Not at all necessarily correct. We are a UK backbone provider. We carry much of our traffic 6000 miles to California over very expensive Atlantic circuits, where we pass it off to American providers, who use very cheap and much shorter US links. We ship about 5% more traffic to the USA than we get back. So on balance we are subsidizing the US Internet: * we pay more to carry the packets * we give more than we receive Before you go making statements like that, please answer the following questions: 1) How many US ISP's customers would notice if vbc.net fell off the net? 2) How many of vbc.net's customers would notice if the USA fell off the net? You're welcome to stop subsidizing the US Internet any time you please. And be sure to put a note in your trouble ticket system reminding your customers not to let the doorknob hit them in the ass on the way out the door... If I live more than a mile and a half or so from a central office, installation of a T1 will require a special engineering fee. Unlike you, I'm not cheeky enough to assert that my unfortunate location represents a subsidy to the US Internet. ---Rob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Edward Vielmetti (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: alex (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Michael Dillon (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Karl Denninger (Oct 27)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Roger Bohn (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider Karl Denninger (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Azeem Azhar (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Robert E. Seastrom (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jeremy Porter (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Alex.Bligh (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Todd Graham Lewis (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jim Dixon (Oct 25)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations Jeremy Porter (Oct 26)
- Re: Provider credibility - does it matter? was Re: Inter-provider relations alex (Oct 25)