That is correct..... Pac bell and Ameritech bid zero cost because they get income from the NAPs by charging people to attach. bellcore gets a small piece of change for providing research coordination with the two rbocs. ******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: cook@cookreport.com Corporate. Site Lic $650 Newly expanded COOK Report Web Pages http://pobox.com/cook/ ******************************************************************** On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, John G. Scudder wrote:
At 11:02 PM 10/6/95, Dave Siegel wrote:
The NAP providers (Ameritech, Sprint, and PacBell) do get some government money. As with all government funding, there is red tape, such as providing services to R&E type stuff.
Ameritech doesn't receive any government funding for the Chicago NAP. I believe that Bellcore receives some government funding.
I don't think that Sprint or PacBell get any government $$ either, but they should confirm or deny that themselves.
--John