[IP] more on Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service
Begin forwarded message:
From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 28, 2006 10:05:12 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [IP] Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee
dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service
This ruling spells bad news for millions of US Internet users,
especially
with the low rate of broadband adoption here in the US. I know
people who
still use dial-up. A per-minute fee for Internet access would
drastically
curtail their Internet usage.
I haven't been following how the telcos are doing, but I'm guessing
that the
recent attempts to drop any pretense of net-neutrality, this ruling,
and the
recent mergers and acquisitions indicate that the telcos are pulling
out all
the stops to maintain their broken business models as long as they can.
--
William S. Duncanson
caesar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: David Farber [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 19:24
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Subject: [IP] Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute /
Ruling
favoring Verizon may hike price of service
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From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 28, 2006 6:57:20 PM EDT
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Subject: Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling
favoring Verizon may hike price of service
Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute Ruling favoring
Verizon
may hike price of service
By Keith Reed, Globe Staff | April 28, 2006
Service to thousands of dial-up Internet users in Massachusetts was
disrupted this week after a federal court ruled against a Quincy
company in
a lawsuit that could have broad impact on the cost of dial-up service.
The US Court of Appeals in Boston ruled April 11 that Verizon
Communications
Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up
users need to connect to the Internet -- in much the same way that they
charge for long-distance or other calls.
The ruling came after Verizon sued Global NAPs Inc., a Quincy company
that
supplies local numbers to 28 Internet service providers for use by their
dial-up customers.
Verizon claims it is owed more than $65 million by Global NAPs. The
court
did not rule on damages, but Verizon cut off Global NAPs's access to its
network, effectively shutting down Internet service for customers of
dial-up
providers like MegaNet of Fall River, which had to find another
company to
supply emergency connections for its approximately 7,500 dial-up
subscribers.
...
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/04/28/
dial_up_provider_loses_net_access_amid_fee_dispute/
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