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Non-Tech : Proposed $.10 per Minute Internet Charge
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To: yard_man who wrote (96)2/12/1997 7:19:00 AM
From: Tom Simpson   of 112
 
It would be nice if we could get a real ISP to shed some light on the issue. I conjecture that an ISP has a bunch of phone lines terminated on modems fronting routers with local connections to servers and one or more dedicated line connections to the Internet. It's probably true that the physical dedicated line supplying the ISP bandwidth for Inet access is supplied by the telco, but I don't think its necessarily true that the router on the other end is a telco router. As I understand it there are a number of companies (MCI, Sprint, etc.) who supply cross country backbone bandwidth and a given ISP can choose thru whom he gets access. I suppose he pays something for that, i.e.
he gets one bill for the lines (dial up and leased) from the local Bell and a separate one from someone else for access to x amount of Inet backbone bandwidth via a leased line. Truely I'm guessing here, but there must be some mechanism for gathering funds to support the bandwidth necessary to carry packets across the world. I can't imagine where an RBOC gets into the digital traffic part of it unless it gets into the backbone supply business as a separate thing from the RBOC business. Could be I'm just not imaginative.

I'm awfully pleased to see the level of interest. There is no freedom more precious than the one granted through the first amendment, and it is equally precious throughout the political and cultural spectrum.
Even remote threats to the unfettered flow of expression are inherently political. To conjecture a conspiracy is not necessary. The uniform commercial pap on the broadcast TV networks today has no evil roots; it is the natural result of the concentration of control within that medium. We should be pleased indeed to see the level of wariness at such concentrations in this one.

Buenas Noches......Tom
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