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From: dave@ecrcvax.UUCP (Dave Morton)
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Subject: Re: makin' profit at unido (Was : Re: An apology...)
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Date: 5 Jul 89 11:29:23 GMT
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In article <58956@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
>
>Since its a 5 -1 cost difference, I'd say unido is providing a damned
>good service.
Here,here. But it's not just unido, the other EUnet backbone sites as well.
>
>In fact, if someone else could do it cheaper and just as well, I think
>unido would happily become a customer instead of a provider.
I dont think they'd disagree on that point.
>
>p.s. its also interesting to note that unido has been DROPPING their
>rates. You see the more people that use them, the more people
>are sharing the costs, so the charge is lower for everybody. If they
>were truly trying to profit, wouldn't they keep their charges
>the same when their costs go down?
Sure they would but they dont. We are going to see increasing
economies of scale in the future as well, as more people join up.
The limiting factor for me is not unido but bundespost costs. To my
knowledge we are one of the *only* sites in germany (still) receiving all
the news that unido gets and that's 60MB a month. We pay unido DM 300 for
that but we pay the bundespost over DM 2300 last month just to get the
stuff down from there to Munich. I guess you could say we're pretty
rich, not many companies in europe would be willing to pay those monies.
As rick, daniel & others have pointed out, the only way we *can* function
is the way we're doing it right now.