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) Distribution: can Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 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. -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@waterloo.edu ljdickey@WATDCS.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP or ...!uunet!water!ljdickey