[12065] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP's as Common Carriers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shikhar Bajaj)
Tue Sep 2 17:58:06 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 17:46:48 -0400
From: bajaj@bellcore.com (Shikhar Bajaj)
To: eric@mail.ccti.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>
> Does anyone have any pointers to information (hopefully FCC
> documents) that classify ISP's as Common Carriers?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --Eric
> --
> Eric Wieling (eric@ccti.net), Corporate Communications Technology
> Sales: 504-585-7303 (sales@ccti.net), Support: 504-525-5449 (support@ccti.net)
>
> A BellSouth Communications Specialist. No, I don't work for BellSouth, I'm
> just on the phone with them so much that I'm an expert at getting them to do
> things.
>
In regards to access charge reform, the FCC ruled, tentatively, that ISPs would not
be subject to local access charges currently being assessed on long-distance carriers.
See www.fcc.gov/isp.html
Shikhar
