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FROM FCC DAILY DIGEST:<br>
FCC SAYS GTE'S ADSL INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES IS AN INTERSTATE
SERVICE.<br>
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The Commission intends to address next week, in a<br>
separate order, the broader issue of whether conventional dial-up
access<br>
to the Internet, made through calls to information service
providers,<br>
including Internet Service Providers (ISPs), is local or interstate
in<br>
nature. That decision will address whether incumbent local
telephone<br>
companies may be required to compensate their competitors for
handling<br>
calls made by the incumbents' customers to ISPs that are the
competitors'<br>
customers. Report No: CC-98-41. by MO&O. Action by: the
Commission.<br>
Adopted: October 30, 1998. (FCC No. 98-292) CCB.<br>
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION: why is this important?<br>
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Most ISP's in Michigan purchase dialtone from Competitive Local
Exchange<br>
Carriers(CLEC) at discounted rates from traditional Ameritech services
and<br>
thus provide services at lower cost to consumers. If Internet
access<br>
through CLEC's is deemed to be interstate telecommunications traffic,
per<br>
minute tariff charges would begin to apply for calls delivered via
CLEC's.<br>
This could mean a dramatic increase (on the order of 1-2 cents per
minute)<br>
for Internet access.<br>
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Additional information on the GTE "test" case can be found
at<br>
<font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/News_Releases/1998/nrcc8081.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/News_Releases/1998/nrcc8081.html</a><br>
</font></u><br>
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