[92745] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Tue Oct 10 10:46:28 2006
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:40:25 GMT
To: ops.lists@gmail.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Is it April 1st already? :-)
- ferg
-- Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
=2E. because they provide internet over fiber optic cables, which work b=
y
sending
pulses of light down the cable to push packets ..
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/10/stories/2006101012450400.htm
So they get slapped with tax + penalties of INR 241.8 million.
[snip]
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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