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Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger
From: Larry Smith <lesmith () ecsis net>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:11:30 -0500
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 17:52, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
And just to make life more fun, it looks like there's an effort afoot to get VoIP consumers to pay (read: tax) into the USF: New taxes could slam Net phone users http://news.com.com/New+taxes+could+slam+Net+phone+users/2100-7352_3-584223 7.html So, aren't you glad that life isn't boring? ;-)
Well, if my reading of the FCC ruling is correct, in 270 days (from the date of the ruling) the ILEC's will not be paying any USF fees on broadband anymore, since cable does not have to pay, so they have already stated they are "reviewing" options for alternate funding. Gee, Why not VOIP..... -- Larry Smith SysAd ECSIS.NET sysad () ecsis net
Current thread:
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger, (continued)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Daniel Golding (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joe Abley (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Joel Jaeggli (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Simon Waters (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Randy Bush (Aug 24)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Lewis Butler (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Steve Gibbard (Aug 25)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 26)
- Re: ISP's In Uproar Over Verizon-MCI Merger Larry Smith (Aug 23)