Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:11:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: backbone connections in Australia Message-ID: <199809281311.JAA02784@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980928172755.3716C-100000@aniwa.sky> from Andrew McNaughton at "Sep 28, 98 06:04:17 pm"
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Andrew McNaughton recently said: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Chris Foote wrote: > > Probably your best bet is a satellite connection with your own dish > > at Wagga Wagga (big links to Sydney would cost big bucks from where > > you are located). > > We have a 4Mbit satellite link, quite affordable at just over 1 million > > per year; see: > > Panamsat: http://www.panamsat.com/ > > AAP Sat Tel: +61 02 9692 1089 .... > 1 million dollars? > Ihug offers sattelite dishes to home users in new zealand with a similar > arrangement re phonel ine for outgoing data. ... I'm working for some people who had a request to service a company in the islands East of Florida. Panamsat was high. The talked to another got a better price. Went back to PanAmSat and found the price could be lowered. The real problem/cost in that link - which was never put in place - were the ridiculously high charges put in place by the state-owned telephone company for interconnection, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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