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That is correct..... Pac bell and Ameritech bid zero cost because they get income from the NAPs by charging people to attach. bellcore gets a small piece of change for providing research coordination with the two rbocs. ******************************************************************** Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscript.: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Non Profit. $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: [email protected] Corporate. Site Lic $650 Newly expanded COOK Report Web Pages http://pobox.com/cook/ ******************************************************************** On Sat, 7 Oct 1995, John G. Scudder wrote: > At 11:02 PM 10/6/95, Dave Siegel wrote: > >The NAP providers (Ameritech, Sprint, and PacBell) do get some government > >money. As with all government funding, there is red tape, such as > >providing services to R&E type stuff. > > Ameritech doesn't receive any government funding for the Chicago NAP. I > believe that Bellcore receives some government funding. > > I don't think that Sprint or PacBell get any government $$ either, but they > should confirm or deny that themselves. > > --John > > >
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