A bandwidth market

Mark Baker (markb@iosphere.net)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:42:06 -0500 (EST)

It's just too painful for me to cut and paste entire articles over my telnet
session. Sorry.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980112S0007

Entitled "Website Opens Spot Market For Telecom Bandwidth". It discusses
RateXChange, http://www.rateXchange.com, a forum/market for anonymous
buyers and sellers to meet and deal bandwidth. Cute.

I see value in the anonymity over the long haul, but not in the forum
itself. Munchkins will make the whole Internet their forum. Traders
will have to provide value (e.g. anonymity, trusted by both parties,
etc..) - locating a party is the easy part.

> "My challenge is to get the carriers to adopt this concept," said Whelan,

Ya don't say.

MB

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