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To: Josef Svejk who wrote (6191)	5/25/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

can't find anything about the phone cos. being allowed to charge long distance rates for internet service There's also nothing about it on cnnfn.com or cnn.com. One would expect to find such a story on cnnfn under telecommunications/regulation, but there's nothing of the sort: cnniw.newsreal.com@2@14@2@5 And a general search: search.cnn.com Beyond that, such a proposal seems absurd on its face because there would be no way to meter for it. Even an ISP couldn't very well institute such a charge because there's no good way to tell where an email originated. There is a proposal by some rural-state senators to subsidize high-speed internet connections in rural areas -- a kind of latter-day universal access charge. Passage of such a rule would probably raise phone rates, so this might be where the otherwise unfounded story got its start. cnn.com