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Subject: Re: commercial network economies vs. ARPANET
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David,

I would add to your comments on economics that Telenet is a
commercial supplier so its charging policies should be
configured to supply a profit. Telenet also has to pay the
overhead of sales/marketing/billing/collection which the
ARPANET laregly avoids (not entirely, as the DDN folks
have to handle tracking of costs for circuits and allocating
charges to the funding organizations - but this is on a
more coarse scale than the Telenet accounting).

Vint