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Non-Tech : Proposed $.10 per Minute Internet Charge

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To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (61)	2/10/1997 12:25:00 AM
From: John Grandy	of 112

Roger, You are badly misinformed. The internet was started by scientists, who tend to be a pretty conservative bunch. The ISPs were all financed by conservative investment bankers. The whole telco network upon which the internet depends was built up by and large by conservative businessmen. Does this make the internet bad? Of course not. However, right now the very things we find so valuable about the internet (financial information and trading, education possibilities, empowerment of small businesses) are being threatened by massive frivolous use of the net. Therefore, a cost-structure must be put in place to re-direct net usage towards societally beneficial activities. You seem to think that only big-business will benefit if per-minute charges are put in place. Guess again. Big business is already massively deploying AWAY from dial-up access to the net. They are either building their own infrastructures or they are leasing bandwidth from ESPs who totall bypass the local telcos. Per-minute access charges are about getting the porno freaks and other frivolous users off the net so that people like you and I can use it for legitimate purposes at a reasonable speed rate.

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