Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: One version of how VAN FCC Surcharges would work Message-ID: <12916@topaz.rutgers.edu> Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 11:46:45 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.12916 Posted: Thu Jun 25 11:46:45 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 01:30:37 EDT References: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 What you fail to recognize is that I am already paying for it. I have to pay intra-lata voice charges already to carry my data to the point-of-presence. Sometimes it is a local call and hence only costs me 8 cents, but frequently it is not. Voice LongDistance carriers get service for the access fee they pay. The phone company connects them from their point of presence to the user and provides various essential signalling. While this mode of access makes sense when the RBOCs provide data service to my house (ISDN), it is little more than an attempt to expand the BOC monopoly for the "data through the voice channel" network. -Ron