Re: [NYT] Bell-South charging access fees for phone-over-Internet

At 1:46 PM -0400 on 9/14/98, bill.stewart@pobox.com wrote:

The company has written to a half-dozen Internet service providers in its region saying that in November, BellSouth will start levying access fees for voice conversations the Internet companies transmit.

Bingo. A hole big enough to drive cryptography through... Crank up your PGPFones, folks. Or, maybe we just need ipsec? Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism http://www.philodox.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'