Sounds awfully familiar... The knee jerk reaction of Minsvyazi in USSR was exactly the same. Good thing, it later turned out that Anti-Monopoly Commitee were in fact customers of RELCOM. Thanks, Paul. --vadim Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:59:46 -0500 From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com> Subject: Bell vs. Internet Providers (fwd)

From the 'For What Its Worth' Department.

- paul BELL VS. INTERNET PROVIDERS Bell Canada plants to increase line rate charges for Internet service providers by as much as 400%, saying the higher charge is necessary because those providers use lines for 55 to 60 minutes every hour compared with voice usage on a Centrex line of about 10 minutes. The service providers say the move aims to eliminate competition for Bell when it introduces its Worldlinx Internet access by the end of this year. (Montreal Gazette 9 Nov 95 D7) ***************************************************************** Edupage, 9 Nov 95. Edupage, a summary of news items on information technology, is provided three times each week as a service by Educom, a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology. *****************************************************************