-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
Cc: Mark Peugeot <mark@ptw.com>; portmaster-users@livingston.com
<portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: (PM) Stable v.90
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|On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Larry Vaden wrote:
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|> Finally, a realist who understands that the cumulative costs to 2,000
ISPs
|> could be in the same range as "millions of dollars" a day.
|
|I don't really think that there are 2000 ISPs who are using PM3s and who
|are losing "millions of dollars" a day cumulatively. If 2000 ISPs lost
|about a dozen $15/month accounts a day, you're only about a third of the
|way to a million. If they are losing accounts like this, the problem
|isn't with Lucent's development.
|
|How many people have cancelled accounts with you because you didn't have
|V.90 support or they were unable to use your V.90 connection? Are you
|really hemorrhaging so much cash because of V.90 troubles? If you (or
|other people) are, is Lucent to blame, or could it be due to not following
|directions and betting everything on beta code, or perhaps telling your
|customers about the virtues of V.90 without telling them about its
|problems?
|
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| Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
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