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To: Daniel G. DeBusschere who wrote (1688)	10/23/1998 2:11:00 PM
From: Stephen B. Temple	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3178

Daniel: My intentions here were not to delineate prices, but to act as a conductor in a play with no music, and that is "figure it out" <gg> IMHO, I can see all ISPs, ITSPs, CLEC, ILEC, RBOC, and anyone sending signals on POTS as a supplier of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, better known as the Snowe-Rockefeller-Exon-Kerrey amendment, stating that schools and libraries should have access to telecommunications services for educational purposes at discounted rates. All for one, one for all> If you reread my statement on possibilities why the action by the CPUC, I think its very clear. We are headed in the right direction, one pays, all pay. IMO, thats why Frank C. asked those questions, and that is to get a variety of answers to these forward-looking comments by the CPUC when discussing the FCC. The "recip-comp" was the obvious part as FC so put it. <gg> Temp' If you have a chance, the last 4 or 5 releases from BoardWatch would help in understanding what been said so far on these matters. I am surprised (which is a better word than shocked), but glad it has come to this. If you look at it from the Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers side, allowing ISPs to "recip" puts light on the fact (ISPs=traffic carriers), so that further down the road when heads-butt-again, fire power from the ILECs is what I see from all of this. IF ISPs are to receive "recip", then you know what they should be classified as _____, in the eyes of the ILECs. But who knows, many more chapters to write, right? <gg> boardwatch.com Temp'