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Re: Customer AS
From: Sean Doran <smd () icp net>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 22:55:38 +0100
| We can't pretend to be able to replace the phone networks until we can | achieve similar reliability. Phone networks typically are spec'ed to | two minutes a year downtime. Uh huh, while I agree with you that the Internet is not remotely as stable as voice networks are, I think that this has a great deal to do with the revenue difference. Consider that a T3, eating 690 DS0s, at 10 cents/minute/DS0, is worth ($52560 * 690) some thirty-six million dollars a year in revenue on the voice network. I think you will agree that a T3 for Internet connectivity is not worth a very large fraction of that. Moreover, a backbone T3 for voice going down costs (at roughly 10 cents/minute/DS0) $4000/hour in lost billable revenue. If the money figures for Internet connectivity were anywhere near the figures for voice, and was billed by use in small increments, you would expect greater investment in reliability, as one sees on voice networks. Frankly, where there is significant competition and little or no loss-leading and cross-subsidy, the Internet is precisely as reliable as people are willing to pay for. Sean. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: Customer AS, (continued)
- Re: Customer AS Alex.Bligh (Aug 17)
- Re: Customer AS Sean Doran (Aug 17)
- Re: Customer AS David R. Conrad (Aug 17)
- Re: Customer AS Curtis Villamizar (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Sean Donelan (Aug 18)
- Re: Customer AS Paul A Vixie (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Justin W. Newton (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Perry E. Metzger (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Dave Morton (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Dave Morton (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Sean Doran (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Perry E. Metzger (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Vadim Antonov (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Matthew Kaufman (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Sean Donelan (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Matthew Kaufman (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Joseph McDonald (Aug 23)
- Re: Customer AS Jon Zeeff (Aug 23)
- Re: Customer AS Nick Williams (Aug 23)
- Re: Customer AS Joseph McDonald (Aug 23)
- Re: Customer AS Vadim Antonov (Aug 21)
- Re: Customer AS Curtis Villamizar (Aug 21)