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- The Modem Tax surfaced on a local bboard here in Pittsburgh. An
- enterprising fellow in our department (David Eckhardt) followed up with
- a definitive rebuttal from the FCC. Clip-and-save!
-
- (Incidentally, the person who posted the MT business and subsequently
- received massive flames followed up with the observation:
-
- I've received mail since then accusing me of posting an urban legend. Well,
- I checked out the story with a folklorist, and it turns out that it
- *doesn't* qualify as a real urban legend, but merely an incorrect rumor.
-
- So there!)
-
- --Sean ``alt.incorrect.rumor'' Smith
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- carnegie mellon computer science
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- posting from PITTSBURGH, the center of the AFUniverse!
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- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
- Common Carrier Bureau
- Enforcement Division
- Informal Complaints and Public Inquiries Branch
- Suite 6202
- Washington, D.C. 20554
- Phone: (202) 632-7553
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-
- In Reply Refer To:
- January 1990 63203
- ICB-FS-036
-
-
- RUMORS REGARDING A COMPUTER MODEM SURCHARGE
-
- The FCC has received letters from a number of computer modem users
- expressing concern about an alleged "proposal" before the Federal
- Communications Commission (FCC) that would result in a surcharge for
- the use of computer modems on the telephone network.
-
- There is _no_ proposal pending before the FCC that would result in the
- application of a surcharge for the use of computer modems on the
- telephone network.
-
- The FCC has been informed that various computer bulletin board systems
- are encouraging computer modem users to write to the FCC and to their
- congressional representatives to oppose this alleged proposal. The FCC's
- Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) staff has contacted several bulletin board
- systems and requested those systems to advise their users that there is no
- proposal before the FCC at this time regarding a computer modem surcharge.
- Bureau staff is continuing to investigate possible sources of the surcharge
- rumors and to distribute correct information to computer modem users.
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- - FCC -
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