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On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Matt Ranney wrote: > > to step forward at this point -- more Web traffic flows from the UK > > to the US. That is, there is a small net flow of _benefit_ to the US > > and a very large net imbalance in _costs_ to the UK. > > Obviously the costs are different, but how exactly are you measuring > "benefit"? What if there are just more net-savvy folks the UK that > want to run Web sites, resulting in a higher ratio of servers to > browsers than in the US? Don't those people that put up Web servers > then want people in the US to see them? To my way of thinking, content providers are net producers of 'benefit' and say dial-up users are consumers. We adjust our prices to reflect this: if you buy a leased line from us to run a Web server, we charge you less; if you are a dial-up provider, we charge you more. Most end users would agree with this model. They pay their 10 quid / 15 bucks a month so that they can surf the Web. They don't expect the Net to pay them ;-) -- 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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