Sender: •••@••.••• (Andrew Hagen, symbolic analyst) Was it just me or did I miss the granting of the power to regulate the Internet to the FCC. Apparently this is just what the telecom bill did, along with the handing out many other tasty treats. ;-) The phone companies see a threat in Internet telephony software (the software that allows you to have a voice conversation real time over the Internet with others using the software). Of course, there is a threat to the phone companies there, but only due to their general incompetence and ridiculously high prices. Those phone companies have now petitioned the FCC to make the use of Internet telephony software illegal (and presumably punishable by sending the feds to raid and confiscate your computer system, but I'm just guessing here.....). The FCC is currently holding a period of public comment on these provisions. FCC Threat to Internet http://www.freetel.com/fcc.htm VON Coalition Home Page http://www.von.com/vonyes/ http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/WWW/hottopic.html#acta -- Andrew Hagen, symbolic analyst e-mail •••@••.••• http://rrnet.com/~ah/ PGP Key ID: E4A58DB Thursday, 21 March 1996 ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
