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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: satellite netnews costs
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Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 06:35:35 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 06:35:35 1984
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First, I'd like to express the gratitude we all owe Lauren for his excellent
and ridiculously fast work on this project to date.

My question is, assuming that everything goes smoothly up to hardware
manufacture, how will the final system be paid for?  I realize the satellite
time is free now, but obviously that won't be the case once the system is
really deployed.  Will it be a "normal" cable service, with billing by the
local cable merchant, who in turn pays a fee to retransmit it, or what?  In
that case, is there likely to be sufficient demand so that most cable
companies will bother to support it?

Please forgive me if this question has already been dealt with.  (When you
are through forgiving me, send me mail explaining it in words comprehensible
by a cretin.)  Otherwise, please respond to this newsgroup.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center
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