[31149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HR 4445 Reciprocal Compensation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Sep 14 09:35:01 2000
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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To: wsimpson@greendragon.com (William Allen Simpson)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:36:23 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <39C0C02F.EF8D540D@greendragon.com> from "William Allen Simpson" at Sep 14, 2000 08:10:35 AM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that William Allen Simpson said:
>
>
> "To exempt from reciprocal compensation requirements telecommunications
> traffic to the Internet. "
>
> Anybody know about this? Seems like it kills payments by ILECS to CLECs
> for dialups, when the calls are to an ISP. Note, only _TO_ an ISP;
> folks wanting to provide voice are still required to pay ILECs for
> traffic _from_ an ISP.
>
> Is this the "ILECs put ISPs out of business" act?
Yes.
Per folks in telecom regulation field; that's exactly what
the Bells want. And they all pulling out all the stops,
lobby-wise.
They screwed up BIG time by *demanding* recip comp. They now want
the Emperor's New Clothes to correct that.
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