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Technology Stocks : BORL: Time to BUY!
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To: Bipin Prasad who wrote (8676)1/22/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Jeroen Pluimers  Read Replies (1) of 10836
 
Bipin and partner,

Being on-ling in Europe is still expensive. It's not the internet environment, but the monopolistic position of most telecom companies.

Right now I have a 64k dial-up connection permanent on-line. It costs me $50 per month to the ISP and $700 per month for the telecom.

However, it is changing because of two reasons: Europe is trying hard to become not only a monetary union (one currency for all of Europe), but also a market union that allows for much more competition in the market.

The first steps have already been taken: most countries now have multiple mobile phone providers and multiple leased line providers (for capacities >= 2 megabit). Large players that enter this market are typically cable-TV, electricity and railway companies. There are plans for competition in the local loop as well (right now it costs about $1/hour).

Getting back to Borland - these prices are one of the reasons that Borland has the internet site only in the USA. But I hope we can persuade them getting a mirror over here in Europe (IMHO Amsterdam and London are the best peering points - I'd be happy to help sorting out that kind of stuff). That would certainly improve the connections since right now it often is hopeless between 14:00 and 04:00.

jeroen
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