[21138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Ruling, Cost of Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret McDanel)
Thu Nov 5 02:13:39 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:29:55 -0500
From: Bret McDanel <bret@rehost.com>
To: pstemwedel@interaccess.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: bret@rehost.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981103184134.008c58d0@pop.interaccess.com>
---Reply on mail from Peter Stemwedel about FCC Ruling, Cost of Internet
> 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.
>
If it is for DSL lines, and if they are ruled to be non local, wouldnt
that mean that the rbocs arent required to resell this service to the IXCs
(and other ISPs) since the current ruling is for local service (at no less
than a 17% discount no less)???
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