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To: lostmymoney who wrote (24673)	1/9/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Larrie Woods	Respond to of 41046

TO ALL: Received this disturbing e-mail from Internet Alaska Inc. this morning. We should all corespond with our congressmen. Hello everyone, We thought it important for you to know that Sen. Stevens is taking a lead role in the effort to greatly increase the cost of your Internet service. Our typical customer uses the Internet 68 minutes per day. Long distance companies pay $.06/minute access charges to local telephone companies. If Sen. Stevens succeeds a typical monthly bill may go up by ~$121.68/month Internet Alaska does not want to raise our rates or charge for usage; it is unwise for Sen. Stevens to require us to do so. Quite simply we believe it will kill our business. Local phone companies want you to reduce your use of the Internet; this will happen, whether you want to or not, if usage-based pricing is forced upon ISPs. We urge you to mail the following people and organizations and let them know you oppose the imposition of additional fees on your Internet Service: (cut and paste this into the "To:" field of your message) senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov, ahernlj@alaska.net, usreport@fcc.gov, John_McCain@McCain.senate.gov, email@murkowski.senate.gov, Don.Young@mail.house.gov Send your message now for greatest impact. Info about S.1354 (co-sponsored by Sen. Stevens is at thomas.loc.gov thomas.loc.gov news.com fcc.gov I will be providing more detailed info about this issue on our web site in the coming days. thanks for listening, Lance Ahern President, Internet Alaska Larrie

To: lostmymoney who wrote (24673)	1/9/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: David McCleary	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 41046

Feb 2nd, 1998 prediction.....$5.00. Feb 2nd, 1999 prediction....$15. The lack of any news of new orders after the trial periods concerns me somewhat, although they may still me in negotiations. The Worldcom deal at this point in the game is just an added FTEL expense. I'm sure Worldcom has a hundred "unknown" telecom companies in the very same arrangement, I may be wrong. Eventually it should pay for itself, but it will probably be a while, then again maybe FTEL is gearing up for a sudden expected increase in load, but as of now there is no news of that sort. The Computer Telephony article is great news, but again, an article by itself is not profit producing. Still looking forward to hearing of some orders from the trial periods. Dave