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Internet Economics
At 02:22 PM 8/5/96 -0800, jim bell wrote:
>The current question is how to motivate individuals and companies to invest
>in improvements to the Internet that will benefit everyone. However, I don't
>think that will be the limiting factor that it may currently appear to be.
>Due to the nature of the Internet, there is nothing to prevent a company
>(such as AOL, Compuserve, or other) from building a shadow version of the
>Internet, through which all of its customer's traffic will pass until it
>emerges local to its destination.
Note that this is the business model for @HOME which will be handling the
heavy lifting for various Internet Over Cable systems around the country.
DCF