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- From: jtk@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Joe Klein)
- Newsgroups: milw.general,milw.unix
- Subject: Re: Milwaukee Internet connection options
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 09:24:54 GMT
- Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS
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- References: <1gl24pINN2un@uwm.edu> <BzCKMp.uw@solaria.mil.wi.us> <1992Dec16.195703.3561@mixcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec16.195703.3561@mixcom.com> Dean.Roth <Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com> writes:
- >In <BzCKMp.uw@solaria.mil.wi.us> jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco) writes:
- >
- ...
- >data transfer (file or mail) to another company, either in the U.S.
- >or elsewhere in the world, to remain competitive. These businesses
- >cannot afford $1000 - $2000/month fee for a simple 14.4K SLIP link
- >that most commercial providers want (usually $250/month plus a long
- >distance telephone call) however, and would prefer to acquire the
- >service locally. (Or do not want to manage a computer and networking
- >software themselves but want to pay someone else a fee to do that,
- >and to use a BBS type of service.) There are probably several businesses.
- >
- >One option would be for interested parties to form an organzation
- >that gets a 56K or T1 line and then divides that up into dedicated
- >and on-demand dial-up IP service at 14.4K or 56K. Startup cost would
- >be $50-$100K, with monthly operating costs probably near $1500-$2000,
- >which does not consider any salaries or taxes that come with employees.
- >Anyone interested? Anyone win the lottery recently?
- >
- >Dean
-
- When I win I'll let you use my connection ... :-)
-
- This subject keeps comming up now and then, wish we could come up with
- a workable answer.
-
- WiscNet more or less put the plug in all the back-doors to the Internet.
-
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