Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: ont.micro,kw.micro
Subject: Re: Remote timesharing services cost comparison
Message-ID: <1555@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 May 88 11:21:13 GMT
References: <1613@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
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In article <1613@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
> ...
>
>	Do their own networks cost that much less to run than packet
>	switched ones?  You would think packet switch would be a winner
>	for the economies of scale.  Why should everybody have their
>	own packet network?
>

I think that some companies have packet switched networks
of their own that use some of the same carriers as companies like
datapac, tymnet, and telenet.

>I sure can't figure the pattern in all this.

When you do, I think you will see an economic opportunity.

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