Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!chinacat!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why Aren't College Telcos Regulated? Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 04:00:20 GMT Sender: news@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@chinacat.lonestar.org X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 536, message 3 of 10 In article , eravin@dasys1.UUCP (Ed Ravin) writes: > Why aren't these local telephone service providers (for, in essence, > that's what they are) regulated by their respective state public > service commissions? Simply put, they are not a common carrier or a utility. It is a private phone system in which they happen to have a means of billing associated users for their calls. This is not unlike a business keeping SMDR records and then billing its employees for suspected personal calls. If the university owns the system, it has the right to do with it what it pleases. As a student, you are not "the public". You are a "client" of the organization. Even if the school hires an outside firm to administer the operation, it is still considered a "closed system". > I strongly urge students at any school with an attitude like > Columbia's to write to their state's public utilities commission > documenting abuses that no ordinary telephone company could get away > with and asking for relief. Sorry, but I really don't think they will be interested. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !