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From: mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
Message-ID: <374@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 2 Apr 89 07:15:21 GMT
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In article <742@mks.UUCP>, egisin@mks.UUCP (Eric Gisin) writes:
> Onet should consider reducing the cost for end nodes to $1K-$5K,
> based on the size of the organization. Almost all the revenue
> from end nodes could be put into improving the backbone links,
> and with 10-20 new nodes you could probably upgrade the backbone
> links from 19.2K to 56K/sec. Everyone would benefit from that.

Have you looked at Ma Bell's pricing policies for leased lines recently?

If so, you'll find that you need 15k$ end nodes to afford to upgrade
backbone links to 56k.

Mike.

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