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To: Moonray who wrote (12951)	2/20/1998 4:48:00 PM
From: David Lawrence	Respond to of 22053

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- During a Federal Communications Commission hearing Thursday on the thorny issue of whether Internet-service providers should be included among telecom companies that must contribute to the so-called universal service fund, FCC Chairman William Kennard hinted ISPs should be bound by the same rules traditional telecom carriers must follow, CMP Media Inc.'s TechWeb publication reported. The Baby Bell phone companies have objected to ISPs' exemption to access charges - fees that other carriers pay to fund universal service. At the hearing, long-distance carrier LCI International argued that if the FCC doesn't change its existing definition of telecom carriers to include ISPs, other carriers will skirt the policy by deploying technology to be classified as ISPs, CMP said. (The full text of this story is available in Search Newswires in the Newsstand section of Dow Jones Interactive on the web or in the Current News section of the Dow Jones Interactive software. Enter a stock symbol or keywords to retrieve the story.)