[12722] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF and the big bad T (tax) word [long]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Fri May 27 03:32:05 1994
Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 14:17:04 -0400
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: willis@cs.tamu.edu
Cc: frezza@radiomail.net, alt-politics-datahighway@cs.utexas.edu,
com-priv@psi.com, djw@eff.org, don.wills@swc.com
In-Reply-To: <199405261642.LAA13024@neuron.cs.tamu.edu> (message from Willis Marti on Thu, 26 May 1994 11:42:52 -0500)
>From: Willis Marti <willis@cs.tamu.edu>
>I guess I've been in the same place, though I don't know what you mean by
>a pretty good clip. It's true one of the cellular operators in a city is
>non-wireline. It's also true that in a few high density areas, there have
>been companies to skim off certain business accounts. But i'd have to
>believe less than 1% of US phones have any choice in dialtone provider.
>Do you have data different from that?
I have already been approached by one credible (i.e. company whose
name I know well), alternate dialtone provider in Boston (NYNEX
region.)
As I understood it there was a court decision that mandated access to
dialtone which took effect 1/1/94.
Obviously implementation will take some time. But it's happening.
-Barry Shein
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