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Re: ISP FCC exemption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Snyder)
Tue May 4 19:04:11 1999

From: larrys@lexis-nexis.com (Larry Snyder)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 19:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <002101be967a$9ca6dbb0$ecaf6cc7@hawk.lvrmr.mhsc.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Check out:
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html
-ls-

"Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com> wrote:
> =

> While following through on some other issues, I ran across this referen=
ce.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa012099.htm
> =

>  It was an erroneous assumption. FCC chairman William
>  Kennard had announced the opposite just the day before:
>  "The FCC has repeatedly stated for the past decade =96
>  and is stating again today =96 that it is NOT repealing the
>  ISP exemption that [prevents] Internet service providers
>  from paying per-minute charges to local telephone
>  companies." =

> -------------------------------------------------------------
> =

> Can anyone point me at the FCC regulation, or other documentation, for =
this ISP exemption?
> =

> -----------------------------
> Roeland M.J. Meyer
> Morgan Hill Software Company, Inc.
> http://staff.mhsc.com/~rmeyer
> mailto://rmeyer@mhsc.com
> -----------------------------
>    Lead; Follow; Get out of the way; =

>            ... pick one!
> =

> =

> =



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