Internet Economics

Duncan Frissell frissell at panix.com
Mon Aug 5 20:47:25 PDT 1996


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







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