RE: FCC Ruling, Cost of Internet

["MacFarland, Chris" <chris.macfarland () allegiancetelecom com>]

Steven-

The reason for this is regarding settlement charges ( reciprocal
compensation ) for intrastate calls from ILEC to CLEC.
If the FCC rules that calls to ISP's are interstate then the settlement
model dramatically changes for the LEC terminating
the call.  This would have a significant impact on revenues for CLEC's that
use recip comp as part of their core business model.

Thanks, 

Chris MacFarland
Director, Data Engineering
Allegiance Telecom, Inc.
214-261-7257



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven J. Sobol [SMTP:sjsobol () nacs net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 5:23 PM
> To:   Ivars Upatnieks
> Cc:   nanog () merit edu
> Subject:      Re: FCC Ruling, Cost of Internet
>
> On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 01:39:29PM -0500, Ivars Upatnieks wrote:
>
> > The Commission intends to address next week, in a
> > separate order, the broader issue of whether conventional dial-up access
> > to the Internet, made through calls to information service providers,
> > including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), is local or interstate in
> > nature.
>
> This stupidity again?
>
> An Internet dialup call is an interstate call if you're in one state
> dialing into a POP in another. Otherwise it's not. Duh.
>
> The FCC has much better things to do than debate a point for which the
> answer is painfully obvious. If you're going to tell me that when I dial
> up to my account in downtown Cleveland from my house ten minutes away, I'm
> going to either laugh at you, tell you you're a flaming idiot, or quite
> possibly both.
>
> Sorry. My ISDN line at home is serviced by Ameritech, and NACS's PRIs are
> serviced by ICG/Netcom. Maybe I should get charged for a call from Chicago
> to Denver since Ameritech is headquaratered in Chicago and ICG is in
> Denver,
> even though I'm calling from Cleveland to Cleveland.
>
> If there's something obvious that I'm missing here, please, PLEASE point
> it
> out to me...
>
> Oh yeah. Are they going to insist on charging per-minute for voice calls
> as well as data calls? I bet not.
>
>
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