Internet Economics

At 02:22 PM 8/5/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:

The current question is how to motivate individuals and companies to invest in improvements to the Internet that will benefit everyone. However, I don't think that will be the limiting factor that it may currently appear to be. Due to the nature of the Internet, there is nothing to prevent a company (such as AOL, Compuserve, or other) from building a shadow version of the Internet, through which all of its customer's traffic will pass until it emerges local to its destination.

Note that this is the business model for @HOME which will be handling the heavy lifting for various Internet Over Cable systems around the country. DCF