From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 12 10:04:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15475 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:04:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from croute.com (ishm2.croute.com [199.97.106.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15465 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from bldg1.croute.com by croute.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA23368; Wed, 12 Feb 97 12:04:40 CST Received: from COMPUROUTE/SpoolDir by bldg1.croute.com (Mercury 1.21); 12 Feb 97 12:04:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from SpoolDir by COMPUROUTE (Mercury 1.30); 12 Feb 97 12:04:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Larry Dolinar" Organization: CompuRoute, Inc. To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:04:10 -0600 CDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: U.S. issue: FCC Docket# 96-262 (possible per minute charges) X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Larry Dolinar" X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-Id: <56D7CD77DBF@bldg1.croute.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm not going to forward the full message, as it's from FlashNet, and makes the claim that "your local telephone company has filed a proposal with the FCC to impose per minute charges for your internet service". I've looked a little at the comments submitted by SWBell's attorneys, and a fair amount of it appears to be crying about current regulation and lack of recovery cost mechanisms when technology outpaces them. If their aim is to subsidize this through per-minute charges, I think that's a bad thing indeed. Whether this turns out to be true remains to be seen, but the pertinent information follows: Official statement: http://www.fcc.gov/isp.html There are 3 zip files available for the curious from the URL that are mostly collections of comments in various word-processing formats, and almost universally telco-authored. I wonder where the general public comments are... Email comments to: isp@fcc.gov Include "CC Docket No 96-263" as the subject with name and mailing address, otherwise the claim is that comments directed to this email will be discarded; sounds a bit suspicious, but the original comment date was Jan 27, with reply comment date of Feb 13. Unfortunately I only got this message the day before (12th). Apologies to the out-of-band readers, but this seems to be the sort of thing that our government and utility companies like to pull these days. I hope it's not a trend. cheers, larry