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From: bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Another problem with usage charges
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Date: 26 Apr 88 13:05:34 GMT
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If nothing else this is becoming an object lesson in why AT&T was
granted a monopoly, it certainly did simplify a lot of things. Sure,
that's been broken up, perhaps around 2080 Judge Greene will see that
the internet can be "deregulated" also.

There are other examples, I think people on this list are starting to
understand what the word "infrastructure" really means. It has a lot
to do with services who's very value is based upon their universality
(roads that go to other roads, phones that can call all other phones,
railroads that can use other tracks, canals that link to other
waterways, consistent rules and tariffs etc.)

	-Barry Shein, Boston University