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To: Detail-MD who wrote (5852)	2/26/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

It will have no effect on individual subscriber prices: In response to requests by carriers that the Commission clarify how local telephone companies should compensate one another for delivering traffic to Internet service providers, the Commission today concluded that carriers are bound by their existing interconnection agreements, as interpreted by state commissions, and thus are subject to reciprocal compensation obligations to the extent provided by such agreements or as determined by state commissions. The Commission declared that Internet traffic is jurisdictionally mixed and appears to be largely interstate in nature. But the decision preserves the rule that exempts the Internet and other information services from interstate access charges. This means that those consumers who continue to access the Internet by dialing a seven-digit number will not incur long distance charges when they do so. In a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Commission also asked for comment on proposals governing future carrier-to-carrier compensation for handling this traffic. What effect it will have on what baby bells and long distance carriers charge for internet traffic over phone lines is still TBD, and is probably a long time away from resolution. As such, this will have an eventual impact on AOL and other ISP internal charges, but I don't know which way.