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Fw: Internet Charge

I thought everyone here in the Pumpkin Group would be interested in a
follow up on this story. A friend of my in Pennsylvania received this note
from his Internet Provider.
As it could impact all of us I thought I would pass it along!

Chris A.
Moraga, Calif.

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> I thought a few of you might be interested in this bit of information.
> 
> ----------
> : From: ssj@talon.net <root@talon.net>
> : To: tnsclients@talon.net
> : Subject: Internet Charge
> : Date: Monday, February 17, 1997 6:23 PM
> : 
> : Many of you have passed an email around to us and your friends about a
> : concern with the phone companies asking the FCC to add an additional
> : charge to your phone bill for Internet usage.
> : 
> : For those who have not seen this story here is a short version.  The
> : phone companies are pushing the FCC to add a per minute charge to your
> : phone bill for anyone using the phone line to access the Internet.  
> : The charge is supposed to replace "old" phone equipment that can
> : not currently handle the traffic that the Internet is creating.
> : 
> : A mailbox was set up at the FCC to handle comments you may have
> : concerning this idea.  The deadline was Friday.
> : 
> : Here is the good news.  The response was so high that an FCC
> : computer network went down because of the flood of mail traffic.
> : 
> : Also on Friday several LARGE companies filed their comments with the
> : FCC, they include:
> : Apple Computer
> : America Online
> : IBM
> : Microsoft
> : Intel
> : Netscape
> : and Sun Microsystems.  
> : 
> : Also heavily involved was the Electronic Frontier Foundation and in a 
> : surprise move, a large percentage of newspapers and cable companies 
> : voiced their opinion against the idea to the FCC.
> : 
> : The FCC is expected to hand a ruling down later this year.  We will
> : update you.
> : 
> : Scott
> : 
> : -----------------------------------------
> : Scott St. John
> : scott@talon.net
> : VP, Engineering, System Administrator
> : Talon Network Services, Inc.
> : www.talon.net
> : -----------------------------------------
> :
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