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." -- Dave Platt UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net