Check this out

Wed Sep 2 12:48:15 UTC 1998

Any reason why it should be regulated the PUC's at all?  Is the
usefulness
of that beurocratic arm of the industry fading?  If so, why would you
need
them at all in the future world of IP-only communications through a
global
network (like the internet)?

I bet you will see more and more of this type of push by the industry as
they lose their death-grip hold on the PSTN, and I predict we will be
paying by-the-packet for access into a globally "free" network
eventually.

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Anderson [mailto:dean at av8.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 8:36 PM
To: Paul Ferguson
Cc: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Check this out

Well, the article also said that charging by the packet is "outrageous",
which if I followed some of the BBN/GTE thread, was exactly what some
were
proposing.

I think its only a matter of time before the PSTN and the Internet are
one
and the same, and regulated by PUC's. So I'd have to think also that
either
the concept of "long distance" will change, or perhaps something as
crazy
as per packet, long distance internet charges will come into existance.

		--Dean