Interesting People mailing list archives
IP: Re: who won the US Revolution? The English (BT) may win it
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 05:07:32 -0500
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:59:14 +0000 To: Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu> From: Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk (Brian Randell) Dave: On the radio here this morning, discussing Internet growth and the BT/MCI merger/takeover a BT spokesman expressed smug satisfaction with the fact that there is no tradition of free local calls here, so that as the average call time zooms because of Internet access, they have no problem in financing the extra equipment needed. (In fact there is one telephone system here, in the city of Hull, in East Yorkshire - owned by the city corporation - and does provide free local calls. I gather that an ISP tried to set up shop there and soon abandoned the venture.) Cheers Brian Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell () newcastle ac uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/
Current thread:
- IP: Re: who won the US Revolution? The English (BT) may win it Dave Farber (Nov 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- IP: Re: who won the US Revolution? The English (BT) may win it Dave Farber (Nov 05)