Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 15:09:51 +0800 From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov) To: jogden@merit.edu, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: MCI [ATM overhead] [...] The pricing on ATM transport is merely an artefact of "pilot" status of ATM networks. Carriers lose money on that. When market will be established the prices are bound to rise to that of native IP transport, or, likely, more (as ATM does not handle levels of overcommitment found in IP backbones now). [...]

Hmmm... Does that imply that the NSP that can take advantage of underpriced services, (perhaps including ATM, if you are correct), will have a competitive advantage? -tjs