>Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Received: 3 Mar 1999 21:37:58 GMT >Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 16:36:26 -0500 >From: "P.A. Gantt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: Electronic Media Design and Support >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: Tom Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Not so fast - reply to "Digital Havenots R US" > >Yes and who do the inter-carriers pass this on to? > >Hello! > >ISPs! > >Yes and who do the ISPs pass this cost onto? > >Consumers. Sorry, but that just isn't correct. ISPs continue to be billed as end users at usual business rates under FCC rules. The order regulates sharing of expense between CARRIERS. The ISP is regarded as an END USER under FCC rules, not a carrier. The ruling makes this very clear. >Tom Lowe wrote: >> >> At 10:55 AM 3/3/99 -0500, you wrote: >> >The Internet died last Thursday when >> >the FCC ruled that long distance can >> >be charged to ISPs for our connection >> >to the NET via Telcos. >> >-------------------------------------- >> >> Not so. I have read the entire text of the Declaratory Ruling in CC Docket >> No. 96-98 and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in CC Docket No. 99-68 decided >> Thursday, Feb 25, 1999, and it says nothing about long distance being >> charged to ISPs for our connection to the Internet. It's solely about >> inter-carrier compensation for connecting end users to ISPs. >> >> For an explanation see: >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Factsheets/nominute.html >> >> The full text of the Ruling and Notice is to be found at >> >> http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Orders/1999/fcc99038.txt > > >Yeah from the FCC spin doctors. >Talk to the ISPs they are furious! Maybe there's a big conspiracy sub rosa, but it's not evidenced by this particular ruling. Maybe there was another ruling that day? Enlighten me. >Heeeeelllllooooo! Noted. Sounds like a hillbilly insult. ______________________________________________________________________ Tom Lowe The tygers of wrath are wiser than Jackson, Mississippi the horses of instruction. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - William Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
