Xref: utzoo news.sysadmin:2068 news.admin:4526 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin Subject: Re: i2ack request for news/email supply connection Message-ID: <56046@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 22 Jan 89 20:21:43 GMT References: <102@i2ack.UUCP> <9198@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 24 In article <102@i2ack.UUCP>, venta@i2ack.UUCP (Paolo Ventafridda) writes: > In addition, one has to pay for the backbone transmission costs, which > charges 1024 bytes 0.25 $ , PLUS an yearly additional fee for News. In article <9198@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Don Speck) writes: >If that's U.S. dollars, that's a HUNDRED times the average cost per >kilobyte that Brian Reid estimates in his monthly readership summaries. > >If this is accurate: Why does Eunet have to cost so much? The (typical) cost that EUNet must pay to their X.25 provider is approximately $0.19 per kilobyte (actually $12 per kilosegment), plus $12/hour connect time, plus monthly service fees that run from $500 to $1500 per month. Work it out, and you'll find EUNet isn't exactly raking in the bucks. These links are also fairly slow, which limits traffic in a practical sense. Generally, dialup is not an effective alternative (more expensive and less reliable), and Trail- Blazers aren't legal. And you wonder why the Europeans complain about Dinnette-For-Sale ads? The big problem in Europe isn't a monopolistic EUNet; it's monopolistic and paranoid PTTs (Post-Telephone-Telegraph).