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In <1599@stb.UUCP> michael@stb.UUCP (Michael) writes:
>>
>>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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Uhm, I don't know how to break this to you, but AT&T DOES pay these
access charges.  Just look at the annual reports:
	revenues:	3,000,000,000 (or so)
	acc chrg:	2,000,000,000 (or so)
	-=----=-
	net rev:	1,000,000,000 (or so)

MCI, sprint, (ie - resellers of AT&T lines...) etc, etc also pay,
but I think they still get a "discount" at many offices/exchanges.

It's about time that other companies pick up their "fair share"
of this stuff.

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