Actually, what the FCC stated was that this tariff was filed properly as the DSL lines are an extension of GTE's inter-LATA frame network. Seems pretty dubious to me, although it's not the whole Internet as long distance thing which I was afraid of at first. Apparently there's to be yet another FCC statement on either access fees or reciprocal comp (I cant remember which but I think it's the latter) by the end of the week. Those RBOCs must have a bunch of lobbyist hanging out at the FCC. At 06:22 PM 11/3/98 -0500, Steven J. Sobol wrote:
An Internet dialup call is an interstate call if you're in one state dialing into a POP in another. Otherwise it's not. Duh.
The FCC has much better things to do than debate a point for which the answer is painfully obvious. If you're going to tell me that when I dial up to my account in downtown Cleveland from my house ten minutes away, I'm going to either laugh at you, tell you you're a flaming idiot, or quite possibly both.
Sorry. My ISDN line at home is serviced by Ameritech, and NACS's PRIs are serviced by ICG/Netcom. Maybe I should get charged for a call from Chicago to Denver since Ameritech is headquaratered in Chicago and ICG is in Denver, even though I'm calling from Cleveland to Cleveland.
If there's something obvious that I'm missing here, please, PLEASE point it out to me...
Oh yeah. Are they going to insist on charging per-minute for voice calls as well as data calls? I bet not.
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