[IP] more on Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute / Ruling favoring Verizon may hike price of service

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "William S. Duncanson" <caesar@starkreality.com>
Date: April 28, 2006 10:05:12 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
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@starkreality.com

-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave@farber.net]
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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@roscom.com>
Date: April 28, 2006 6:57:20 PM EDT
To: undisclosed-recipient:;
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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