Re: This could put a dent in community BBSs, etc.

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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 18:32:37 -0400
From: Brent Wall <"brentwall@worldnet.att.net"@worldnet.att.net>
To: communet@list.uvm.edu
Subject: Re: This could put a dent in community BBSs, etc.
Message-Id: <19961007223708.AAA8172@worldnet.worldnet.att.net>


W. Curtiss Priest wrote:
> 
> The Nashville Banner carried a story on the 3rd
> picked up by Individual:
> 
> "Bellsouth Plan to Limit Residential Lines, Tennessee
> Internet Firms Alarmed - Nashville Banner Knight-Ridder
> /Tribune Business News.  A new rate schedule that BellSouth
> wants to apply to owners of multiple phone lines has a group of
> local Internet service providers fearing for their businesses."


Curtis,

Just as Daniel Webster's advocate:  if one can afford two phone lines 
(unlike me, and yes I am cheap) why cna't these folks pay for same, 
PROVIDED THAT these surcharges go for, say, universal service?  Is this 
something the FCC should take up?

Brent Wall
<"brentwall@worldnet.att.net"@worldnet.att.net>

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