[21119] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Ruling, Cost of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Stemwedel)
Wed Nov 4 00:32:21 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:41:34 -0600
To: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>, Ivars Upatnieks <ivars@ic.net>
From: Peter Stemwedel <pstemwedel@interaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981103182236.41167@shell.nacs.net>
Actually, what the FCC stated was that this tariff was filed properly as
the DSL lines are an extension of GTE's inter-LATA frame network. Seems
pretty dubious to me, although it's not the whole Internet as long distance
thing which I was afraid of at first. Apparently there's to be yet another
FCC statement on either access fees or reciprocal comp (I cant remember
which but I think it's the latter) by the end of the week. Those RBOCs
must have a bunch of lobbyist hanging out at the FCC.
At 06:22 PM 11/3/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
>An Internet dialup call is an interstate call if you're in one state
>dialing into a POP in another. Otherwise it's not. Duh.
>
>The FCC has much better things to do than debate a point for which the
>answer is painfully obvious. If you're going to tell me that when I dial
>up to my account in downtown Cleveland from my house ten minutes away, I'm
>going to either laugh at you, tell you you're a flaming idiot, or quite
>possibly both.
>
>Sorry. My ISDN line at home is serviced by Ameritech, and NACS's PRIs are
>serviced by ICG/Netcom. Maybe I should get charged for a call from Chicago
>to Denver since Ameritech is headquaratered in Chicago and ICG is in Denver,
>even though I'm calling from Cleveland to Cleveland.
>
>If there's something obvious that I'm missing here, please, PLEASE point it
>out to me...
>
>Oh yeah. Are they going to insist on charging per-minute for voice calls
>as well as data calls? I bet not.
>
>
>--
>Steve Sobol [sjsobol@nacs.net]
>Part-time Support Droid [support@nacs.net]
>NACS Spaminator [abuse@nacs.net]
>
>Spotted on a bumper sticker: "Possum. The other white meat."
>
>
>
Peter Stemwedel
Network Engineer
InterAccess Co. petes@interaccess.com
168 N. Clinton (312) 496-4694 Office
Chicago, IL 60661 (312) 496-4499 FAX
