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IP: Re: who won the US Revolution? The English (BT) may win it all back (fwd)



  
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  Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 05:07:32 -0500
  From: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
  To: interesting-people mailing list <interesting-people@eff.org>
  Subject: IP: Re: who won the US Revolution? The English (BT) may win it all back
  
  Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:59:14 +0000
  To: Dave Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>
  From: Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell)
  
  Dave:
  
  On the radio here this morning, discussing Internet growth and the BT/MCI
  merger/takeover a BT spokesman expressed smug satisfaction with the fact
  that there is no tradition of free local calls here, so that as the average
  call time zooms because of Internet access, they have no problem in
  financing the extra equipment needed. (In fact there is one telephone
  system here, in the city of Hull, in East Yorkshire - owned by the city
  corporation - and does provide free local calls. I gather that an ISP tried
  to set up shop there and soon abandoned the venture.)
  
  Cheers
  
  Brian
  
  Dept. of Computing Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne,
  NE1 7RU, UK
  EMAIL = Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk   PHONE = +44 191 222 7923
  FAX = +44 191 222 8232  URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/~brian.randell/