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From: sjl@ukc.ac.uk (S.J.Leviseur)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: unido making commercial use of the net
Message-ID: <1706@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Jul 89 11:30:14 GMT
References: <1552bis@stl.stc.co.uk> <786@redsox.bsw.com> <114@utower.UUCP> <5523@pixar.UUCP> <3281@shlump.dec.com> <8805@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <8805@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>It does seem like there should be some commercial or government sites that
>have excess satellite bandwidth that could be used to pass news during the
>off hours.  Has anyone looked into that possibility?
>
Yes, when we looked into it this was is illegal in the UK. You could
not use a private network as a common carrier without paying the PTT
for doing so. Strangely enough this costs about the same as using the
PTT to carry it for you... :-(

	sean