> 1. There will be some more pricing stages (home, corporate, stundents and
> others), and it will be soon on their web pages.
Isn't it what I wrote a few days ago?
> 2. Israeli Students will have the "benefit of a doubt" and would be able to buy
> it for ~100$. Any company plans to sell it in Israel?
VMware will be sold only directly, at least in the first stages. No
resellers are assigned, anywhere.
> 3. Build 110 will be posted on their web site this thursday.
I wrote this too. Next time please read my messages before posting
;-)
> Barak just came out with commercials with "Free Internet". I heard their
> marketing people (they say they got 45MB to outside of Israel on Optic, but they
> didn't mention to where and to whom it's connected. Also they couldn't tell if
> they're connected to IIX.
Of course they are connected to IIX:
http://www.services.co.il/iix/iix-trendline.iix.net.il.10.html
And their international line should be one of the best, since they
are one of the three international providers (together with Kavei-
Zahav and Bezek BeinLeumi). As a member in Global-One, a consortium
of 3 communication godzillas, they are connected to Global-One on
the second side. They even have a good reputation.
Nevertheless, IMHO their connection is very bad, slow, and unstable.
For example, today their international line was completely down for
3 hours (!!!). Not only their direct customers were disconnected
from the world, but also many other ISPs (e.g. Aquanet, InfoLink,
etc.), and many companies which have their own international line,
leased from Barak. I expected to hear about it on the media/press,
but it seems that Internet is not so important for them.
Now to Stanislav:
> We got some rather attractive FR proposal from Bezeq Beinleumi. Seems
Don't forget that their price was $180/64Kb a few months ago. So
even if they offered you $250 instead of their list price ($280), it
is far from being attractive. According to my calculations, based on
dozens of parameters (!), an unlimited ISDN account costs the ISP
MORE than a FR account of 64Kb, and maybe even 128Kb. But only a few
ISPs charge rational prices, like IsraSrv (beginning by $29/64Kb!),
Aquanet ($99/64Kb), ActCom ($67/64Kb and $99/128Kb - non-commercial)
and Internet-Club ($99/64Kb).
The only reason that some ISPs keep their prices crazy ($300-$500
for the minimal lines), is that there are enough frayers who pay
them such prices without asking too much.
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Eli Marmor
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