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- From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Modem tax surfaces again.
- Message-ID: <Brt7sM.FE8@wsrcc.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:31:33 GMT
- References: <1992Jul18.061630.25536@bang.uucp>
- Organization: W S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Fremont CA
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- >MEMBERS URGED TO FIGHT "MODEM FEE"
- > (16-Jul-92)
- > A commissioner with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently
- >stated that the FCC may again examine the possibility of imposing "modem fees"
- >for information service companies. [...]
-
- Nowhere does it say what the fees are, how they are calculated, or who
- they are levied against.
-
- Wasn't the old "modem tax" just something that applied to service
- companies that had modems remotely located (via long distance leased
- lines)?
-
- -wolfgang
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- Wolfgang Rupprecht wolfgang@wsrcc.com (or) wsrcc!wolfgang
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