Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (11/15/83)
TELECOM Digest Tuesday, 15 Nov 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 100 Today's Topics: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Location: EJ: (4 The whole matter is being handled in a manner which belies common sense. Why single out the two dollar amount and mandate it from a federal level in the first place? Why not just stop the subsidy from the long distance carriers (AT&T anyway) and let the local companies figure their own way to make it up. ? Another ironic thing is that this is precisely what is being down with the bulk of the subsidy from long distance to local service--resulting in the prediction of doubled and tripled local rates. One could say that there was a justified and an unjustified cost contribution from long distance revenues to local service. The justified amount was much smaller than the unjustified amount. The larger amount is being redistributed without extreme discussion, while people center on debating the mechanism for redistribution of the less significant amount. As for the tax on private communication service, why not just levy it where the private service forms a connection with the public service? Big businesses place plenty of calls that will be off of any network they are liable to be able to economically come up with. Let them economize where they can, and everyone will probably be the better for it. In short, the so called access charge was probably close to the right thing, but the idea of labeling at as a long distance access charge was absurd. Something like "urban/rural balancing component" seems more accurate. ------- 13-Nov-83 15:22:15-PST,3094;000000000000 Return-path: <SIRBU@MIT-MC> Received: from MIT-MC by USC-ECLC; Sun 13 Nov 83 15:17:09-PST ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************