Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 4 Apr 91 19:30:19 GMT From: oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New FCC Modem Tax? Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 272, Message 1 of 11 Lines: 29 In article , SABAHE@macalstr.edu (Arun Baheti) writes: > Does anyone have any up-to-date information on the new tax that is > being considered? This one just won't die. Back a year or so ago the FCC considered an increase on rates charged for X.25 lines used by Compuserve, Tymenet and other data carriers. This class of service gets a VERY favorable rate. While the proposal was dropped fairly quickly, several news stories talked about an FCC proposal to raise the rates on phone lines used for data. Many readers (who wouldn't know about what X.25 was even if the news story used the term) assumed that this meant modems. An urban legend was born! Now someone sees some reference to that proposal and the whole thing starts again. I see lots of postings on a wide variety of newsgroups about every six months. If you doubt this, call the FCC. They do have a listed number. R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.