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gberger@his.com (George Berger) wrote:
>In article <50l0n8$si6@news2.his.com>, keitz@his.com (Annie Keitz) wrote:
>We believe the study shows that (a) ISPs are responsible for )and
>> in fact make their money by) carrying a great increase in telephone network
>> traffic and (b) because of the fact that much of that traffic comes to them
>> from residential phones and because of current telephone tariffs, they pay
>> relatively little to use the telephone network.
>> 
>> Those are the facts.  We presented them to the FCC without recommendations

>Annie -

>You're forgetting one small fact; viz., that "we" pay Bell Atlantic for
>connection to his.com. BA not only profits from our connections to
>his.com, but also profits from his.com's connectivity. 

>Okay - - I am charged $20 for my conectivity from his.com to the Internet.
>I'm also charged about $38 per month for my conectivity to his.com. 

>Annie, you can't have it both ways.  Think about it.

I didn't say that, I'm only posting verbum what Eric at Bell Atlantic
privately e-mailed to me and requested that I post to the newsgroups where
I had posted my heads up about Bell Atlantic's wishes according to the
Washington Post.  Perhaps I didn't make that clear from my posting.  I
personally trust Bell Atlantic only as far as I can throw them <g>....  

Then again there will soon be alot of folks with motives wanting to get a
piece of the action like the cable companies and the biggies like
Microsoft, so we'll see what happens.  My only hope is that consumers of
the internet speak up so their voices are heard and they get a fair shake!


Annie,                                        
Annandale, VA USA
keitz@his.com