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Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:24:10 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: April 28, 2006 6:57:20 PM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:;Subject: Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service
Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service By Keith Reed, Globe Staff | April 28, 2006 Service to thousands of dial-up Internet users in Massachusetts was disrupted this week after a federal court ruled against a Quincy company in a lawsuit that could have broad impact on the cost of dial-up service. The US Court of Appeals in Boston ruled April 11 that Verizon Communications Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up users need to connect to the Internet -- in much the same way that they charge for long-distance or other calls. The ruling came after Verizon sued Global NAPs Inc., a Quincy company that supplies local numbers to 28 Internet service providers for use by their dial-up customers. Verizon claims it is owed more than $65 million by Global NAPs. The court did not rule on damages, but Verizon cut off Global NAPs's access to its network, effectively shutting down Internet service for customers of dial-up providers like MegaNet of Fall River, which had to find another company to supply emergency connections for its approximately 7,500 dial-up subscribers. ...http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/04/28/ dial_up_provider_loses_net_access_amid_fee_dispute/
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