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To: stomper who wrote (16194)	4/13/2001 10:41:44 AM
From: ALTERN8	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37746

10:20am 04/13/01 FCC ruling could save Bells billions (VZ, BLS, SBC, Q, FCOM, PACW) By Rex Nutting The Baby Bell phone companies could save up to $2 billion a year from a ruling expected next week from the Federal Communications Commission that would cap payments for calls made to Internet service providers, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The FCC now requires the Bells and their local competitors to pay each other for completing calls, such as a call a Bell customer makes to connect to an ISP served by a Bell competitor. The Bells are paying about $3 billion a year to competitors such as Focal Communciations [s:fcom] and PacWest Telecom [s:pacw] for completing calls to Internet service providers. The small competitors say the ruling could be a "dagger into the heart" of their industry.