At 09:49 PM 3/6/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote:
Just because LD is "deregulated" does not mean that it is without any governmental oversight, much as I wish it were... LD companies still have to pay certain taxes (take a look at your next phone bill, they are clearly listed in addition to your actual phone charges) and I am certain that they have entire office buildings stuffed with drones filling out paperwork for Uncle Sam...
jim
Granted. Of course it is quite a jump to claim that a software program is a "Long Distance Carrier." If I run Winsock on my machine and a Winsock application like Iphone, if anyone is the LD carrier, *I* am because I am digitizing my voice and doing the first part of the switching necessary to send the packets on their way. Maybe the FCC should bust *me* for practicing telecommunications without a license. It would make for an interesting case. DCF