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When last we saw our hero, michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) ...
>Wait a sec...Doesn't this mean that ATnT, Sprint, MCI, etc, etc, should
>be paying the same fees???

[the Devil's advocate, a dashingly handsome gentlemen, saunters in]

Yes, they should be, and they do. The resellers and enhanced service providers
have been exempt since '81 when the access fees were put in place. They
are the only ones that aren't paying the fees now. (And resellers were
phased in last year, so only esp's are left.)
The question is, if access fees threaten the survival of these esp companies,
what other alternatives are there that will add them back into the "rolls"
while still maintaining low fees.

Maybe the access fees could be scaled against the load on the network --
sort of reduced rates during off peak hours. Most home users (most of us)
don't dial in until after six o'clock anyway. If the corporate community
thinks it can absorb the added costs, they won't bitch (UNLIKELY!), but
my interests are of my home/one-man-office use.

[tennis racket in hand, the D's A deftly sends the ball over the net into the
 far corner...

 ...to be continued]

Kenneth Mayer				mayerk@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Teacher: "Two plus two equals..."	Student: "Four, but what's a two?"