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From: SNELSON@STL-HOST1.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: FCC proposal again threatens modem users
Message-ID: <7830@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 10:04:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 12 10:04:58 1987
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In Missouri Southwestern Bell has had a 175% of the cost of a flat rate
business line surcharge in effect for 10 years for dial up lines terminating
in a computer.

We (the Army) challenged this in 1977 through the legal troops. What had
really frosted us was that we had 24 dial-up lines terminating in 3 muxes
riding an AT&T 209A modem and link to the Wright-Patterson TIP. We paid!
It seems the very simple way the tariff was written made anything in
Missouri that is directly connected/attached to a computer port gets
charged. We have 52 dial in modems and the cost per month isn't cheap.

What isn't clear is whether both ends of connection are billed $5 per
hour per session or $5 an hour per line regardless of use? How will
they differentiate between data and voice as a lot of companies use
them alternatively for voice during the day and for data during the
low rate periods at night. Take a major programming change for the ESSs
to track incoming calls not to mention the billing programs. Some of the
older switches are pretty dumb and couldn't even do that.

I wonder if the pork barrellers (congress) has EMAIL?

Regards

Steve