more specific routes in today reality

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Kurt Erik Lindqvist KPNQwest wrote:
>
>> >If a provider can't supply the above to a customer that really have the
>> >need for multiple connections and is willing to pay for it, I would change
>> >provider anyay.
>
>> Also pls don't forget about some geographical regions, covered by RIPE, where
>> mostly impossible to build even one last mile channel to nearest "Tier-1 bla 
>> bla bla" provider for non-huge money. 
>
>And in what way would my own AS number and PA space give me more last-mile
>providers?

Don't forget about cheap sattelite channels :-)

Lets imagine situation - customer in a country, where all terrastical long-
range channels are controlled by one big pro-government PTT. There isn't POPs 
of any of "Tier-1 bla bla bla" providers. All of them can be reached only by 
expensive long-rage terrastical or (less expensive) sattelite channel.

In this situation the most popular solution for local customer, who needs 
reliable and cheap IP uplink and high speed access to regional Internet 
resources, is to build two channels to local ISPs (not so reliable, but much
more cheaper than even one external uplink) and to local IX. 

-- 
Regards,
Vladimir.