Re: Bell vs. Internet Providers (fwd)

[Rashid Karimov <rashid () rk ios com>]

                Hi there folx,

> > From the 'For What Its Worth' Department.
>
> - paul
>
>
> BELL VS. INTERNET PROVIDERS
> Bell Canada plants to increase line rate charges for Internet service
> providers by as much as 400%, saying the higher charge is necessary because
> those providers use lines for 55 to 60 minutes every hour compared with
> voice usage on a Centrex line of about 10 minutes.  The service providers
> say the move aims to eliminate competition for Bell when it introduces its
> Worldlinx Internet access by the end of this year.  (Montreal Gazette 9 Nov
> 95 D7)

        The same outrages story is going on in Russia ... they're trying
        to force ppl. with modems pay 2-5 times more for the telephone
        service.
        Scumbugs even designed devices to listen periodically to the
        random lines in the TelCo COs , trying to get a  modem carrier.
        And if they find one , they put some kind of filter on that
        line which makes impossible to use the modem - till you
        pay the dough

        I think that it is the point in certain other countries
        with state/one company monopoly in communications. 

        Rashid