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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (1025)	2/26/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Respond to of 3543

I think that Ms. X gets the official credit.....I may have had some influence on the pick though:-)

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (1025)	2/26/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

Auric, This would only apply to internet telephony calls and not to actual data transmission over the internet. This would be the first step toward the scenario that I was talking about as it does imply usage based billing for real-time voice traffic that is transmitted over the internet. This is significant, but will probably take a little while to sink in as well as implement. JXM

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (1025)	2/26/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: Leeza Rodriguez	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

Auric, this ruling does NOT affect the e-tailers.In fact, the comments that accompanied the ruling confirm that the ESP exemption STICKS. As long as the ISP's are exempt from local access fees(this is known as the ESP exemption), the revolution is on "GO" . This ruling will affect some of the CLEC's who have been receiving reciprocal compensation for terminating Internet calls from RBOC's. It was a nice cash cow for those CLEC's nimble enough to take advantage of this temporary loophole. But the party is now over. Short the CLECs ;-). Leeza Rodriguez