[51665] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCC and Internet telephones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Fri Mar 8 10:41:54 1996
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 10:36:51 -0500
To: sawyer@nextek.com (Thomas J. Sawyer), cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
At 03:13 PM 3/7/96 -0500, Thomas J. Sawyer wrote:
>It seems that once again, big business is trying to get in the way of
>progress and competition because they are afriad they are going to lose
>some money. It seems to me that the ACTA is upset because someone found a
>way to "do it cheaper" and the telco's stand to lose a lot of long distance
>dollars. So rather then using this technology and perhaps lowering LD
>rates, instead they seek to block out the technology from the public.
Actually they *are* using the technology -- digital networking. They are
just keeping the markup. It costs less that 2 cents a minute to produce a
New York to London call but AT&T charges me more than 50 cents a minute.
That sort of markup can't last. They need more copetition. Iphone is just
part of the disintermediation.
DCF
