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From: gordon@FTP.COM (Gordon Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
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Date: 1 May 91 13:04:10 GMT
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    From: bu.edu!icad!goethe!arena@bloom-beacon.mit.edu  (mike arena)
    Subject: Connecting to the Internet
    
    Are there other organizations that provide Internet access in the 
    Boston area?  If so, are the charges comparable to the above?
    
About a year and a half ago I looked into Internet connectivity on
behalf of a former employer.  I checked out Alternet, NEARNet and
PSInet for pricing.  At the time NEARNet was the cheapest.  Since
then, both PSInet and Alternet have established geographical point 
of presence within Boston, so I can imagine that their pricing was
reduced in proportion to their costs.

Other interesting developments in this area:  Alternet, PSInet, along
with CERFnet recently signed an agreement to carry commercial traffic
generated by one anothers customers.  NEARnet also recently followed
suit with a commercial traffic exchange agreement with PSI.  Relavent
players will probably waste no time clarifying the above mud...

but anyway...

PSI:  info@psi.com  or  (703) 620-6651
Alternet:  "home" host is uunet.uu.net, local point of presence is
           at world.std.com  (Software Tool & Die, Brookline).

Hope this helps,

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