Path: utzoo!lsuc!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!maytag!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Bell drops data rates -- who wants to join private internet?
Message-ID: <63100@looking.on.ca>
Date: 18 Dec 89 06:53:49 GMT
Organization: Looking Glass Software Limited, Waterloo ON
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Class: query

Bell has announced that they are dropping the cost of 56 kbit lines by
a whopping 70%.  While they will still be a lot more than similar lines in
the USA, they won't be 10 times as much any more.

I don't know if the discount applies to lines to the USA, but if it does,
that might make it possible for a bunch of us to join in with the private
TCP/IP net that UUNET is starting.   By putting in a Toronto-Washington
line at 56 kbits (or slower if that's become proportionately cheaper -- I
think we could get by with even 9600) and perhaps a Toronto-Waterloo
or other lines, we could get a bunch of companies together to share the
cost, and might see it become quite reasonable -- probably a fair bit
less than the $1500/month that Onet needs, albiet with a bit less bandwidth.


This tcp/ip net would allow any traffic, commercial or otherwise.  Links
are already going in to Boston and Silicon Valley, and it will be linked
to NSFnet, although any traffic over that gateway would have to be to or
from an authorized NSFnet member, within the guidelines of that net.

Anybody interested?
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473