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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Dec 20 13:15:15 2010

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <37D0927A-0BD4-430C-9552-70D90808B81D@princeton.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:09:39 -0800
To: Steve Schultze <sjs@princeton.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

>=20
> Cities currently do not recoup anything from telephone and internet =
services.  Cities are capped at 5% of gross revenue from video services, =
and the definition of what they can recoup has been consistently =
narrowed by the FCC, as I noted here (in response to the first message =
in which you raised this concern):
>=20
> http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2010-December/029444.html

As someone who has a "City Telephone Tax" on both my cellular and =
wireline
bills, I beg to differ.

Owen



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