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Re: [NYT] Bell-South charging access fees for phone-over-Internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Sep 16 12:17:26 1998

In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980914104601.008b0a10@idiom.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:32:03 -0400
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>

At 1:46 PM -0400 on 9/14/98, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:


> The company has written
> to a half-dozen Internet service providers in its region saying
> that in November, BellSouth will start levying access fees for
> voice conversations the Internet companies transmit.

Bingo. A hole big enough to drive cryptography through...

Crank up your PGPFones, folks.

Or, maybe we just need ipsec?

Cheers,
Bob Hettinga
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Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'


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