ISPs in Russia and elsewhere

[Alexandre Bougakov]

Mark,

If she travels with notebook, advise her to buy a $5 or $10 scratch-card in
Moscow from MTU (http://dialup.mtu.ru), Cityline (www.cityline.ru),
Russia-On-Line (www.online.ru), Comstar (http://dp.comstar.ru) or any other
provider.

All she needs is the 20 Rub. (~$1) adapter to plug the standard RJ-45
telephone cable from her modem into the telephone line connector. The only
thing she should keep in mind that Russian telephone lines use pulse, not
tone dialing mode.

Average prices for the dialup acess in Moscow are $0,9 (day) and $0,33
(night), including taxes.

It is much ceaper and easier than to use ISPs, which provide worldwide
access.

The full list of Russian ISPs and Moscow internet-cafes is available at
www.provider.net.ru.

Then she can acess her POP mailbox using any existing web-based mail
system. The most popular Russian one is Mail.ru, but she can use
Hotmail.com or FreeMail.Web.de. All of these systems can gather email
messages from POP mailboxes around the world and provide easy-to-use
interface. All she needs is to register new account and spend two minutes
of time configuring it.

Sincerely yours,
Alexandre Bougakov <mailto:bougakov at mail.ru>
Student of the sociological faculty of the Higher School of Economics
(http://www.hse.ru/fakultet/sociology/default.html), Moscow, Russian
Federation
My website is http://SocioLink.narod.ru/ (thousands of sociology related
links on the Web
- in Russian, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required)
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Mark Konecny [SMTP:konecny at USC.EDU]
Sent:   Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:00 PM
To:     SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject:        ISPs in Russia and elsewhere

Dear Seelangers,

I have an interesting problem that the list may be able to solve for me. A
friend of mine based in the Netherlands travels frequently to the US, the
Pacific and to Russia, and she would like to remain in email contact. She
is currently with Compuserve, which was, until recently, ideal because of
local dialup nodes everywhere. Compuserve has discontinued local dialup
access in much of Eastern Europe including Moscow making email a very
expensive proposition. My questions are as follows:
Are there isps which provide worldwide local dialups including Moscow/SP?
Is there a web-retrieval system from which you could access existing email
accounts at a cyber cafe or library?
Is there a simple way to telnet to the compuserve account? I'm afraid if
the process is elaborate she will not do it.
Are there any alternatives to the scenario which I have described? I'm sure
someone has an elegant means of dealing with this inconvenience.

Thanks, Mark

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