Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Modem Tax (Again? Again!)
Message-ID: <2599@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 18:55:10 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Reply-To: bet@orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd)
Organization: Diagnostic Physics, Radiology, DUMC
Lines: 21
Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 6, message 6 of 8


In-reply-to: Allyn@cup.portal.com

I think two different issues have gotten confused with one and other
here.

1: A couple of years ago the FCC was considering a ruling that would
require services like GTE's PC-Pursuit to pay an access charge,
similar to that paid by alternative LD carriers. This has been hooted
down, and I haven't heard any new news about that in a couple of
years. As far as I know that one's dead.

2: In a completely unrelated piece of news, SWB has been battling for
a while now to force individuals to pay business rates if they use a
modem. They particularly targeted BBS owners. That issue appears to be
open still, though it looks like the sysops have succeeded in making
major headway.


-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu