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>An interesting article was posted by the Seattle Times yesterday, it's at: > > http://www.seattletimes.com/topstories/browse/html97/inet_013097.html > >This was the Jan 30, 1997 issue. In it, Diedtra Henderson writes: > >"US West serves 2.2 million customers in Washington state and spent $340 >million improving its phone system here last year, a spokesman said. The >company blames a meteoric rise in Internet use for its phone-service woes. >[SNIP] >"For the next five years we are in big trouble. There is no clear, >intelligent way to expand the phone system to handle the Internet >demands," said Lu, who expects metered Internet access in the future - in >other words, you pay by the hour. " > >My question is: Have other people heard of similar attempts by the >telephone companies to have "metered Internet access"? It seems they >would need a hardware level signal analyzer on their switching equipment >to differentiate between voice/data. Who is to say that my data call is actually connecting to the Internet? >Does anyone know by what means such a technology could be implemented? >What would be the legal ramifications? > >Also do people agree with the claims that our local lack of available >phone lines is due to Internet usage or just to lack of foresight in >growth management decisions? I would say an intential lack of foresight in order to increase charges for higher profits. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |