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To: donkeyman who wrote (1050)	6/7/1999 2:34:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 3519

European campaigners end Internet boycott for cheaper Web connections LONDON, Jun 07, 1999 (AP Worldstream via COMTEX) -- European Internet users have ended a 24-hour boycott of the World Wide Web that aimed to win a reduction in local telephone charges. The next stage in their campaign is to enroll the support of political leaders, British participants said Monday. The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications said Internet users in 15 European countries coordinated efforts to win a reduction in costs, including a flat-rate charge for local calls, similar to that in the United States. The boycott ended Sunday at midnight. Erol Ziya, a spokesman for the group, called the British contribution to the effort ''a great success'' and said it generated widespread news coverage. Ziya could not say how many Britons boycotted the Internet Sunday. In Spain, however, there was a 38 percent drop in use of the Internet, a 60 percent drop in Internet chat room activity and a 90 percent drop in e-mail traffic, he said. In Greece, another country where campaigners were active, three political parties issued press releases supportive of the boycott, Ziya said. Britain's House of Commons has scheduled a debate on the issue for Wednesday, although it was not immediately clear if this was in response to the Internet boycott. ''It's the start of a process of getting the issue on the political agenda,'' Ziya said. The campaign ran a similar boycott Jan. 31, with seven countries participating. Participants seek the introduction of unmetered charges for connections to an Internet service provider using a telephone modem ''to enable everyone who wants to access the Internet without incurring open-ended costs.'' British Telecom Internet Plan has announced it was introducing a toll-free weekend access number for subscribers to its plan, who pay a monthly subscription fee. The campaign has welcomed the decision but says that users are still tied to a single Internet service provider, ''as with all 'free' offers so far.'' The other countries where Internet users participated in Sunday's boycott, the campaign said, were Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland. * end of story *