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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (74585)	2/26/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 186894

But the isp I use is bellatlantic....? My local phone company is also bellatlantic. They already charge me $19.95 a month plus they charge for extra local calls... Now there is going to be more charges.

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (74585)	2/26/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Lemmie guess, The long distance company makes out. The government gets more tax money and the consumer gets the shaft? Jim

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (74585)	2/26/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Jeff Fox	Respond to of 186894

Duke, re:"AS IF this were a long distance call" Ok, I understand the intent, but technically how can they do this? Once at my ISP, thinks change to packets, and the packets fly anywhere in the world through the net. What's a "call" here? How can this be measured against the distance model (which is totally obsolete here)? Are they proposing to have ISP hand over IP information on each packet transfer? (that won't work). I'd suppose they would charge me the one minute rate for each packet! Are they thinking socialism - like the music industry - where ISP's will pay some tax based on statistical data taken from sampling? Jeff