@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:29:01 -0700 From: •••@••.••• (Marsha Woodbury) To: •••@••.••• Subject: HELP ! - Internet threatened in Poland (@) Message-ID: <acf21a52070210043682@[128.174.47.12]> Wojtek Sylwestrzak <•••@••.•••> I'd like to draw your attention to the matter that we believe could result in the death of Internet in Poland. Please have a look at http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/psinask/ for details. NASK, a Polish monopolistic countrywide Internet provider recently announced its plans to change the charging scheme for its services effective Jan 1st, 1996. According to the new pricelist, NASK is going to charge on a 'per byte' (sent or received) basis at over 1 US dollar per 2 megabytes instead of current 'per badwidth' charges. This idea, together with almost 10-fold increase in prices is perceived by the Polish Internet community as being suicidal for Internet in Poland. Many of Poland's major Internet server administrators immediately announced that they will not be able to provide their services upon the introduction of new charges. So far NASK seems to arrogantly ignore all the general voices. NASK was founded to maintain Poland's academic network and is sponsored financially by the Polish Government. You can help Polish Internet survive by joining us in protest. Any publicity also helps. Thanks, --wojtek sylwestrzak @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 18:56:06 -0700 From: •••@••.••• (Marsha Woodbury) To: •••@••.••• Subject: New Zealand similar to Poland (@) Message-ID: <acf3e2e70902100455fd@[128.174.47.12]> from Kim Scheinberg <•••@••.•••> Here in New Zealand, all international traffic gets routed through NZ Gate to downstream ISP's. The ISP's are charged at a rate of anywhere from $1 US to $3 US per megabyte either direction. This charge gets passed on to the customer, often at a markup. When I arrived, Auckland's only ISP was charging $7 US per megabyte of traffic in either direction Perhaps the situations are not completely analogous as NZ is a wealthier country than Poland and there is competition, but data charging is not new and not unique to Poland -k. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Richard K. Moore <•••@••.•••> Wexford, Ireland | USA citizen | Editor: Cyberjournal CyberLib: http://www.internet-eireann.ie/cyberlib Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ You are encouraged to cross-post list materials for non-commercial use, in their entirety, with all headers, signatures, etc., intact. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~--~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
