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From: leonard@percival.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ATTENTION ALL MICRO USERS!!! FCC INFORMATION TAX AHEAD!!
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Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 21:59:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 21:59:29 1987
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In article <1593@cadovax.UUCP> keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) writes:
<Does it cover microwave, radio, and satellite transmissions as well?  Or
<just 'phone' lines.  Then what exactly *is* the definition of 'phone'
<lines?  Just 'public' phone lines, or private lines as well?
<
<Sounds like an opportunity for someone to make money providing some 'new'
<mechanism for inter-state communications traffic at a rate that is cost-
<effective when compared with the new 'taxed' phone lines.  So who makes
<the money?  Sprint?  MCI?  Cable Video companies?  Some new company?

Sorry, but unless this new company provides links from your house/business
to mine _without using the local phone companies_ you are out of luck.
They're gonna be charging _anybody_ who hooks a "for-profit" network up
to the local phone co. Rates they're talking about are > $.09/minute.

The FCC is getting out of hand again...

<Keith Doyle
<#  {ucbvax,ihnp4,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd
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