At 08:27 PM 1/1/96 -0800, you wrote:
Jim Choate:
If you live in the Austin, TX area I will setup a dedicated slip for you at only $100/mo.
in the Portland Oregon area, the price ranges from $234/year to $1750/year for unlimited ppp access. (I have no idea how long the $234/year is going to stay in business. that won't even cover the cost of a phone line.)
It seems to me that phone line costs are turning into a floor price for Internet access, when they shouldn't really be. The main asset telephone companies have, right now, is in RIGHTS OF WAY. Put an ISP in a business park that allows you to run your own dedicated copper pairs, and you've bypassed $25/month/line business phone line charges. At some point, individual urban and suburban blocks could easily be "guerilla re-wired" for ISP access without serious trenching, etc. The phoneco would still be involved, but in a far lower-profit mode, as the supplier of a single T1 to a multi-block area.