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> Extract From:
> The Benton Communications Policy Mailing List
> [mailto:BENTON-COMPOLICY@CDINET.COM] On Behalf Of Kevin Taglang
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 9:26 AM
> To: BENTON-COMPOLICY@CDINET.COM
> Subject: Communications-related Headlines for 3/12/99
> 
> INTERNET
> 
> FCC WON'T REGULATE INTERNET. REALLY.
> Issue: FCC
> "As long as I'm chairman of the Federal Communications this agency will not
> regulate the Internet," FCC Chairman William E. Kennard told a meeting of
> telecommunications analysts and Internet analysts Thursday. He was
> addressing rumors that have circulated on the Internet for a long time as
> well as concerns of some consumer groups. He repeated that the FCC has no
> intention of making computer users pay long-distance fees for dial-up
> access
> to the Internet, as people now pay when they make long distance telephone
> calls. "Now I know this painfully because every so often when one of these
> rumors flares up I get literally, about 600 e-mail messages a day by people
> who are telling me to keep my hands off the Internet," Chairman Kennard
> added. Separately, Kennard said the FCC is monitoring to ensure cable
> companies providing high-speed Internet services are not freezing out
> competitors or restricting consumers' options for Internet service.
> [SOURCE: Washington Post (E3), AUTHOR: Jeannine Aversa (Associated Press)]
> <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-03/12/180l-031299-idx.htm
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