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To: Stephen B. Temple who wrote (1723)	11/2/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Stephen B. Temple	of 3178

BellSouth's Statement on the FCC's GTE DSL Tariff November 2, 1998 WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- BACKGROUND: The Federal Communications Commission Friday ruled that high-speed dedicated connections to the Internet being deployed by local phone companies -- known as digital subscriber loops (DSL) -- are interstate services subject to regulation by the FCC. The FCC promised a decision next week on the issue of whether incumbent local telephone companies should abide by previous state rulings requiring that they make reciprocal compensation payments to competitive local exchange companies (CLECs) for dial-up calls to the Internet. The following statement in reaction to the FCC's decision should be attributed to Robert Blau, BellSouth's vice president, executive and federal regulatory affairs: "We think the FCC's ruling on the GTE tariff is consistent with the argument we've been making at state commissions, which is that calls to the Internet are interstate in nature and not local. We're glad the FCC has 'concluded that the communications at issue in this proceeding do not terminate at the ISP's local server, as some parties had argued, but continue to their ultimate destination or destinations, very often at an Internet web site in another state.' This ruling supports BellSouth's view that reciprocal compensation payments do not apply to calls made to the Internet."

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