IP: Sidgmore wants "long distance" charges for Net

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>


John Sidgmore has announced that he'd like to throw the Net back into the
Dark Ages, imposing the distance-sensitive pricing that's such a windfall
for old-fashioned telephone companies. (He's also said that the $20/month
rate now being charged by ISPs is "too little" -- another hint that he'd
hike prices in the absence of competition.) The scary thing is that if the
merger goes forward, he could actually do this.


See 


http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/ni9805/TWB19980507S0004