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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Michael Dillon wrote: > > There is a name for this ridiculous style of argument, but I don't > > remember it ... > > Xenophobia. Look it up. Ah, yes, that's it ;-) > > Europe heavily subsidizes the US Internet. It's not just VBCnet: the > > European Internet community pays something like 90% of the costs of > > traffic between Europe and North America. The same applies to the > > rest of the world. > > I would say that if transatlantic lines are mostly ordered and paid for by > European companies that you are probably correct. But part of the reason > is that European government run PTT's charge horrendously high rates for > international circuits. European ISPs routinely put in (very expensive) lines to other European countries and the USA. We have a line to California, and are just now putting in circuits to Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Virginia. This is just normal; we peer with two German networks and one Dutch network in London, where they have run lines over to the UK. On the other hand I have not seen any US regional ISP put in a line to Europe. The few US ISPs (Sprint, UUnet, PSI) that do have lines to Europe use them to sell bandwidth to the States. > Remember when Europe's economy was subsidized heavily by its colonies? > The Internet is a similar colonial economy and it can't last forever. Precisely. -- Jim Dixon VBCnet GB Ltd +44 117 929 1316 fax +44 117 927 2015 http://www.uk.vbc.net VBCnet West +1 408 971 2682 fax +1 408 971 2684 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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