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May 2, 1988

THE FCC DROPS PROPOSAL OF ACCESS CHARGES FOR DATA OPERATORS TO THE LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANY

By CBR Staff Writer

Sighs of relief in the electronic publishing and bulletin board operating and using community: the US Federal Communications Commission, bowing to irresistible pressure, has now formally scrapped its iniquitous proposal that electronic data operators and therefore users – should pay access charges to the local telephone company; the FCC wisely concluded that this is not an appropriate time to levy interstate access charges on providers of information services because the industry is in a uniquely complex period of transition.

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