And he spent five hours over three days searching for historical stock data. Finally, he got off the Information Superhighway, into his car, and onto Interstate 10, down to the Phoenix public library. There, he spent less than an hour getting the information from microfilm. It's a bad sign when the likes of Cunnington get disillusioned. These internal networks work like the Internet and can communicate with it but are built for a company's own employees, big customers, and suppliers.
Intranets aid collaboration by pulling together data on incompatible computers.
Big Internet service providers such as MCI Communications Corp. and Sprint Corp. have long accepted traffic from many of the smaller ones without demanding payment. But that practice has become onerous. All others must pay. That change will spill over to the way carriers charge their customers. If one carrier is charged by others for sending them lots of, say, video signals, it will turn around and raise the fees for that kind of traffic.