From: Roger Williams <roger@coelacanth.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:51:07 -0700 (PDT)
To: Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
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>>>>> Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu> writes:

  > Pac Bell says Net use may collapse phone system

  > [...]

  > Wiping out the subsidy would force Internet companies to find new,
  > more efficient ways of pricing that better reflect actual usage,
  > Parker said.

I caught an interview on the BBC last night with a representative from
PacBell, who claimed that this subsidy resulted in ISPs actively
discouraging customers from using data service (ISDN) instead of POTS.

Bwahahaha...

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