IP: Re: FCC appears poised to kill reciprocal compensation

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: "Joseph H. Weber" <jweber@spri.com>
>To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>
>Since most calls to ISPs are flat rate local calls, the ILECs get no
>incremental revenue for these calls. It's therefore not hard to understand
>why they don't want to pay the ISPs for doing nothing more than terminating
>long holding time calls. The "will of the people" here seems to be a desire
>for the ILECs to subsidize the ISPs. That certainly was not the intent  when
>the reciprocal compensation scheme was established.



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