On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:
Wrong. It already is happening in some regions. You won't see any direct competition in the Internet business for at least two more years unless you see monsters under your bed and the CIA are listening in on your brain.
The Internet market is miniscule. It is growing fast. It will continue to grow fast. No one company can hope to grow fast enough to dominate in any particular city. That's why you don't have to work with your local competition, you just have to work with your other local ISP's in building your local Internet infrastructure and growing your local Internet market..
Yes, so why not take you address space from you upstreem provider and yes, when you need to change it. We started with 1 /24 then, /23 then /19, all from Sprintlink. We then added a MCI connection and the Internic gave us a /18, then we got connected to a NAP, the NIC gave us one more /18. Yes, we had to renumber off the /24, /23, and are still working on the /19. The point is that the NIC has no idea how long you will be in business, or if you need the space at all. I am provding access to right now 10 ISP, that will be gone in a year, and have watch that many die so far. Nathan Stratton CEO, NetRail, Inc. Your Gateway to the World! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone (703)524-4800 NetRail, Inc. Fax (703)534-5033 2007 N. 15 St. Suite 5 Email sales@netrail.net Arlington, Va. 22201 WWW http://www.netrail.net/ Access: (703) 524-4802 guest ---------------------------------------------------------------------------