[10926] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The FCC strikes the Internet (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Mon Mar 14 20:50:35 1994
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 14:04:32 -0500
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger), barney@databus.com (Barney Wolff)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
As tempting as it might be to socket to the LECs, I don't think it is
entirely appropriate to make up for years of abuse by requiring that
interconnections to IXCs or value-added services must be provided at
zero price. Close to zero, sure, but the cost is not zero.
There were an awful lot of "requires" in your plan - doesn't this just
perpetuate the endless hearings before PUCs? Given the number of wires
and pipes coming to my house anyway (elec, gas, water, sewer, phone,
cable) I'm reasonably certain that the argument that the local loop is a
natural monopoly is going or gone. I'd be awfully tempted to let
"neighborhoods" bid out their LEC needs, and let the process progress.
(Sorta like Clinton's health care coops?) Or just say that on Jan 1, 2000
all rate and service regulation will end. (I know it really should be
2001, but that's giving them too much time.)
(Back to the bee in my bonnet.) Would you allow one of your $20/mo users
to run a listserv? Could you tell?
Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
