IP: Re: FCC appears poised to kill reciprocal compensation

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Joseph H. Weber" <jweber () spri com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> Since most calls to ISPs are flat rate local calls, the ILECs get no
> incremental revenue for these calls. It's therefore not hard to understand
> why they don't want to pay the ISPs for doing nothing more than terminating
> long holding time calls. The "will of the people" here seems to be a desire
> for the ILECs to subsidize the ISPs. That certainly was not the intent  when
> the reciprocal compensation scheme was established.



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