Re: forwarded without comment -- anonymity requested from an IPer

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Sun, 13 Mar 1994 14:27:28 -0500 (EST)
From: James Love <love () Essential ORG>
Subject: Re: forwarded without comment -- anonymity requested from an IPer
To: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
cc: interesting-people mailing list <interesting-people () eff org>


On Sun, 13 Mar 1994, David Farber wrote:
> > I got a few calls this morning from various very reliable sources who have
> > been reading your missives, telling me that the RBOCs are heavily lobbying
> > the hospitals and schools saying if they support regulating the Internet as
> > a common carrier, then the telephone company will wire up their buildings
> > cheap, and give them deep discounts on telephone and Internet service,
> > which they are forbidden to do today (they say). Sounds great to a
> > hard-pressed hospital administrator who knows nothing about telecom. Some
> > of our best friends think its a real deal.


   David, I have been following this, and I can tell you that the RBOC
have had nothing to do with this.  I don't even get private mail from
RBOC people on this.  I don't know who these reliable sources are, but
they don't seem to know what is going on to me.  jamie


>


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