[109389] in Cypherpunks
Re: CDR: Re: Long Distance FUD? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Mon Mar 22 14:46:53 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 13:30:57 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
----- Forwarded message from scoops -----
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:21:53 -0800
From: scoops <scoops@quiknet.com>
Subject: Re: CDR: Re: Long Distance FUD?
Pure FUD? Internet too big and slippery to be regulated? How about the
business license an ISP has to take out? How about a question from the
phone company, are you an ISP, an affirmative answer to which affects your
rate under subsection zed of newly enacted special legislation? How about
a special monthly federal or state or local tax on ISPs? How about special
PUC regulations making non-metered service to ISPs allowable? Or new PUC
regs that make a call to an ISP by definition a metered call? How about
any number of taxes, charges, or regulations on ISPs that make them more
expensive to operate? How about them passing that "cost of doing business"
on to you, their cusomers? Thus, even if the customer is not directly
charged more by the local phone company, I can see a thousand ways that the
customer can be made to "pay" for the privilege of using the internet.
At 05:19 PM 3/22/99 +0000, Michael Hohensee wrote:
>It sounds like pure FUD. There's no way that I know of that they can
>locate the two machiens involved in an email exchange. It's all rather
>moot, in any case. The internet is by definition a large collection of
>"local" interconnections. The only way they could attempt to charge you
>by distance would be if they shut down the internet, and that's not
>going to happen.
----- End of forwarded message from scoops -----
What was actualy said by the head of the FCC was that yes such use of an
ISP was long-distance service but as long as he was director there wouldn't
be a charge.
The FCC provided a press release last week on this matter.
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