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Re: BBN/GTEI
From: Austin Schutz <tex () shrubbery net>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 21:03:19 -0700
What this is clearly illustrating is that dialup customers are not as profitable as they used to be, and that web hosting and dedicated service are very profitable. Let's propose for a minute that Exodus is so unhappy about losing BBN connectivity that they buy transit to get to BBN from a third party (clearly they're not going to buy it directly from BBN). They enter in to a contract for transit to BBN via a third party, UUNet as an example. They run a local fddi (or whatever) to a UUNet router which then dumps the traffic the fastest way possible. UUNet then scores a little bit of money for the trouble, and BBN gets nothing except more traffic to run coast to coast. Now what are they going to do? Dump UUNet too? Please. BBN should either find a way of making dialup profitable or get in to other lines of service. Trying to extort money from peers is a ludicrous waste of time. Austin
Current thread:
- RE: BBN/GTEI, (continued)
- RE: BBN/GTEI Owen DeLong (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Dave Rand (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Michael Dillon (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Brian Pape (Aug 25)
- Re: BBN/GTEI M. David Leonard (Aug 25)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Michael Dillon (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Dave Rand (Aug 21)
- BBN/GTEI Richard Irving (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Owen DeLong (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Michael Dillon (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Patrick Greenwell (Aug 25)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Austin Schutz (Aug 25)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Michael Dillon (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Owen DeLong (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Karl Denninger (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI William Allen Simpson (Aug 21)
- RE: BBN/GTEI Jamie Scheinblum (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Richard Irving (Aug 21)
- Re: BBN/GTEI Bruce Hahne (Aug 21)
- Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI) Mike Leber (Aug 22)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI) Michael Dillon (Aug 22)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI) Mike Leber (Aug 22)
- Re: Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI) John A. Tamplin (Aug 22)
- Transaction Based Settlements Encourage Waste (was Re: BBN/GTEI) Mike Leber (Aug 22)