Re: CWD MCI Wades Into IP (fwd)

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

[forwarded with permission djf]


Date: 21 Nov 94 16:59:26 EST
From:David_Brake@pcw.ccmail.compuserve.com
To: brock@well.sf.ca.us
Subject: Re: CWD MCI Wades Into IP


     If you hadn't heard from the UK already, this all sounds like deja vu
     to us. There have been several small and medium-sized Internet
     providers around for a couple of years here, but now British Telecom
     (the near-monopoly phone provider) has decided to jump into the
     market. It will suck up the bigger businesses first, in late 1994 then
     sometime next year it will be going after dial-up accounts. The only
     problem for them is that the public still looks to them for "public
     service" even though it was privatised years ago, so it's nervous of
     being accused of peddling porn by providing Internet feeds...


David Brake, Cutting Edge Editor, Personal Computer World
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