ggr@pyuxbb.UUCP (10/01/83)
/***** whuxh:pr.presstp / mhwpd!prnews / 10:42 am Sep 28, 1983*/ LOCAL PHONE FEES FACE A FREEZE BY SENATE PANEL, Wall Street Journal, 9/28, p.7. The Senate Com- merce Committee yesterday informally agreed on legislation that would: place a two-year mora- torium on access charges for residential and small business telephone lines but allow them to begin for larger companies; instruct the FCC to develop a new plan for allocating local tele- phone costs by March l; and, establish a $400 million universal service fund. A formal vote is sched- uled for later this week. AT&T's response is that congressional delay of the FCC plan would stymie $l.75 billion in long distance rate cuts planned for January. /* ---------- */ /***** whuxh:pr.presstp / mhwpd!prnews / 10:19 am Sep 29, 1983*/ HOUSE UNIT BARS NEW PHONE FEE FOR HOME USERS, Wall Street Journal, 9/28, p. 16. A House subcommittee, by a vote of 10-5, has approved a bill that would allow FCC-established access charges to take effect next year only for businesses, not residential customers. The bill, a compromise between bills proposed by Reps. Wirth and Dingell and an amendment by Rep.Markey, would make up for the lost residential fees by continuing extra charges added to long-distance service and by expanding assessments established by the FCC against businesses that build private networks. The FCC contends that its access charge order represents a fair system of pricing and will lower the cost of long-distance service. According to the FCC plan, residential fees would reach about $8 per month, adjusted for inflation, in six years. Members of both House and Senate argue that the plan overburdens residential users. /* ---------- */ /***** whuxh:pr.intinf / mhwpd!prnews / 10:47 am Sep 29, 1983*/ HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE APPROVES BILL, AT&T pr, 9/28. An amended version of Rep. Wirth's bill barring imposition of access charges on residence customers was approved by a vote of 10-5 along party lines. The bill now moves to the full House Commerce Committee. The bill establishes a universal service fund for high-cost areas, makes provision for lifeline service for low-income users, and levies charges on bypassers. AT&T commented that some House members are "trying to create chaos out of order and just three months before the dilemma in telecommunications was expected to be resolved in a competitive market environ- ment....These members are rejecting what they have been urging for the past decade....And, in a strange convolution, the bill even discriminates among rural customers," since all would contribute to the universal service fund but not all would benefit by it. /* ---------- */
cec36@ltuxa.UUCP (01/19/84)
I want to know why UNIX computers at NSC are not on this network?
walsh@ihuxi.UUCP (01/19/84)
To the student who wanted to know why we at NSC are not on USENET: We don't have access (yet). I'm on because I'm dialing into my account at Indian Hill (AT&T Bell Labs). I believe some UNIX machines here are able to access, butt not most of them. Typical.