Reducing the cost of local loop service to … $21.50 per month … appears achievable, through central office collocation and direct connection to local loop wiring. If such a local loop connection is used for 64 Kbps digital access and compression is used on the data stream, it should be possible to offer barely acceptable performance characteristics for most users.
Predictor: Fidelman, Miles
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Models for the Internet Local Loop” by Miles Fidelman, president of the Center for Civic Networking, a non-profit organization dedicated to the application of information infrastructure to community and economic development. He writes: ”Reducing the cost of local loop service to … $21.50 per month … appears achievable, through central office collocation and direct connection to local loop wiring. If such a local loop connection is used for 64 Kbps digital access and compression is used on the data stream, it should be possible to offer barely acceptable performance characteristics for most users.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Cost/Pricing
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Models for the Internet Local Loop
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 230
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne