Unmetered Net Usage

Yanni jon at aggroup.com
Mon Aug 12 17:09:57 PDT 1996


> So it seems to me that within 5 years or so, there ought to be a
> powerful incentive to wire up apartment complexes and business parks
> with alternative Internet/Internet-telephone connections, ones
> which bypass the phoneco for at least the first few hundred feet.
> This, possibly in concert with a ISDN-driving concentrator or
> a cable-modem, should reduce the cost of the customer-to-the-ISP line to
> a very low value.
>
> Jim Bell
> jimbell at pacifier.com

I can see it now. Apartments full of geeks because the apartments
were originally built with 100BaseX to each place and a T3 in the
basement going direct to the local ISP.

Tack on another $200/month or whatever to the apartment cost ( geeks
can afford that for sure ) and one might end up having a pretty nice
online melrose place.

I wonder if anybody has done that yet...

-jon


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