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In article <1361@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu> mayerk@linc.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Kenneth Mayer) writes:
>When last we saw our hero, keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) ...
>>In article <2288@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes:
>>>	A terrible piece of news I just read about in the New York Times
>>>this morning.  The FCC just voted 4-0 to impose a $4.50 - $5.50 an HOUR
>>>tax on people who are using the phone system to transmit information
>>>across state lines.
>
>After seeing all of the various versions of this, I decided to contact
>the FCC myself and get the facts straight:
>
>In 1983, the FCC adopted an access charge plan where every secondary
>user of local telephone services would be charged a tariff based on
>the costs of the local exchange. Two groups were exempted from this
>tariff -- resellers (those who buy telephone service in bulk and
>resell it at reduced prices) and enhanced service providers (data
>retrieval, manipulation, and transmission). This year, the resellers
>were removed from exemption. 

Wait a sec...Doesn't this mean that ATnT, Sprint, MCI, etc, etc, should
be paying the same fees???

I smell a big rat. Anyone care to comment?
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: Michael Gersten		seismo!scgvaxd!stb!michael
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