Hi Jeff: that was good reading:
Here is a little tke of mine;
Hi Jeff: RE>filed a proposal with the FCC to impose per minute
charges for your internet service. (Suggestions say 10 cents per minute) < They have
been after this for years. AND they have been
winning !..you already pay a hidden TAX in the rates..the ISP is
getting hit for them. They see dollars and want more..it's going
to be a mess..and it's going to cost us one way or another, but
it's worth fighting.
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Now here is a novel idea that I do not have the resorses to work on,
but I may get help with it. The bigest cost for an ISP are the
incoming phone lines ( the phone companies are already making a killing ) ---and lines
are in high demand and short supply, as
the law says residents have rights over business when it comes to
phone lines..so if they don't have base cable laided in the local
area the ISPs are in a bind..( this is ture in a lot of areas
already )--and is one more reason American OFFline will play
hell ever putting in enough modems to handle her customers,
you cant just order up an incoming line, when they are all taken
up or reseved..any way thats the big cost..my little ISP is paying
the local phone co $3600 a month..just for incoming lines..the
back bone T3 line going to the intenet is cheaper...so it's the
front door thats most of the cost.
Here is the Pitch..if taxes do come in ( and they might get away
with it )..what say if I set up as an ISP..hook up to Sprint,
or MCI back bone..but tell the local phone company to get lost,
as the have nothing to do with the back bone..thats a seperate
line going out..OK..in goes my server..but I set up in a big
building..and hook up terminals to my server..( hey NO MODEM )
you are hot wired right in..and running like 10 times the speed
any modem could run..you don't have the nice thing of being at home
but each terminal has its confortable booth..and like 2 or 3
printers could handel 30 terminals..you get unlimted access..
how ever that has to have some limits to time..IF all the termials
get busy whoever came on in first has to start paying a rate,
"to the person in waiting", or get 5 min to save work and
give up the terminal, all users have a dir on the hard drive and
the ability to take work home with them.
This idea has some draw backs, but on the other hand it has some
advantages , like "have you ever been hot wired in ?..it's FAST
and considering the cost reduction of the $36 a mounth charge
on an incoming line, ( plus the dm... tax they will have imposed )
terminals at a cost of about $400 each will pay for them selves
in a year by cutting the local phone company out of the loop..
"like up theirs"...it would not be for every one..but thoes that
did take to it would have socil contact with like minded people.
I have no idea if it would appeal over here enough to fly..but
looking at the way arcade rooms are making it it just might..IT IS ALREADY
CATCHING ON IN JAPAN..one reason it works over there is many
people don't have a P.C...you could work it several ways, by the
hour for nubies..or light users..or try outs, and by the month ( memberships ) for
regulars and heavy users..it would have to stay
open 24 hrs..could sell coffie etc too..hmmm...dogone the tax
they could shoot themselves in the foot if they keep on with that idea.
Then we have the cable cos who want to bring us internet via
the TV cable,..they going to tax that too ? Well I should know
by now; nothing is past the morals of a politician, most of them
would put their mother to work in a call house if they could get away
with it. <G>
Jim |
