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Re: Looking for information about LD regulation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sat May 28 15:03:01 2005

To: Dan Lockwood <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 May 2005 15:43:12 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 15:02:11 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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On Fri, 27 May 2005 15:43:12 PDT, Dan Lockwood said:
> 
> Apologies if this is too off topic.  We (a group of state govt
> organizations) are working together in a VoIP rollout.  Our plan is to
> use our collective buying power to purchase long distance calls at
> wholesales rates.  One organization in our group is going to be the lead
> agency and charge back the other participants.    There is concern as to
> the legality of this venture.  Can anyone suggest some legal resources
> where I might educate myself on the issue of "who can 'sell' long
> distance"?  What are the rules that might apply in our situation?

First thing to do is for the lead agency to ask its legal counsel if *it*
is legally able to resell service - whatever legalistics chartered the agencies
existence may very well specify what sort of activities it may or may not
engage in.....

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