[9677] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: bill summary: Telecommunications Act
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Kaufman)
Sun Jan 16 08:27:26 1994
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 05:13:29 -0800
From: matthew@echo.com (Matthew Kaufman)
To: adamfast@u.washington.edu, dave@oldcolo.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
adam says:
>the intent of the act is to facilitate and coordinate network
>interconnection at a neighborhood level, and if a fidonet or FirstClass
>network wants to connect to the data transport network, this gives them a
>way to, a place to, assurance it won't cost more than the actual costs,
>and a referee to help them.
Um. Doesn't the act ALSO say that that fidonet or FirstClass network
now would be forced to pay into the fund that supports the CPOP?
Whether or not they actually WANT to connect to it, even?
-matthew
