dplatt@coherent.UUCP (Dave Platt) (03/18/88)
Excerpted without permission from the 3/17/88 issue of the San Jose
Mercury News:
"Washington (AP) - The Federal Communications Commission plans to scrap
a proposal that would substantially increase telephone charges for
business and home computer users.
"FCC Chairman Dennis R. Patrick has concluded that, based on strong and nearly
unanimous opposition to the proposal, the plan should be dropped, according
to sources at the commission and on Capitol Hill...
"The commission was expected to vote in two or three months to drop the
proposal...
"Users of [database] services flooded the FCC and Capitol Hill with
thousands of letters opposing the plan, which would add about $4.50 an hour
to the cost of hooking up to information services.
"They said the increased charges, which would double the hourly hookup price
for some information services, would drive many of them off the computer
networks and crush a fledgling industry."
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Dave Platt
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