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May 27 PUC hearing to make ALL calls to ISP numbers "long distance"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Warren)
Wed May 26 20:01:36 1999
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:04:00 -0600
From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
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This is a potential disaster for the future of personal users of the
Internet -- potentially per-minute phone-company fees for calling a LOCAL
number that happens to be the local point-of-presence for any ISP. It
needs all the opposition it can get! By messages to the Cal PUC. PRONTO!
--jim
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> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 10:25 PM
> To: newslib@listserv.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: California PUC to vote on Internet access phone charge
>
> To Californian news librarians:
>
> On May 27 the California Public Utility Commission will rule for a second
> time whether to consider an Internet phone call from a home or business is
> considered "local" or "long distance." The five-member California
> commission has voted on this issue in October 1998 by a 3-to-2 vote in
> favor, along with 30 other states, of upholding the federal regulation,
> which ruled that Internet calls are considered "local." Two of the five
> commissioners on the CPUC have retired since and their seats have not been
> filled by Governor Davis. That leaves three commissioners with two of them,
> Commissioner Neeper and Commissioner Duque, being the ones who have voted
> against "local calls" for Internet users. It would mean it's going to be a
> 2-to-1 vote in favor of making Internet access a long distance call for
> Californians *only.*
>
>The items they will vote on are #5 and 5a number A98-11-025 Pacific
> Bell (May 27 agenda) ...
>
> Have any of California-based newspapers reported on the issue? If so, I
> would appreciate if you let me know. Thanks much in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thai N. Strom, manager
> The Record/News library
> 530 E. Market St.
> Stockton, CA 95202
> Tel. 209-546-8290
> Fax 209-547-8186
