At 03:13 PM 3/7/96 -0500, Thomas J. Sawyer wrote:

It seems that once again, big business is trying to get in the way of progress and competition because they are afriad they are going to lose some money. It seems to me that the ACTA is upset because someone found a way to "do it cheaper" and the telco's stand to lose a lot of long distance dollars. So rather then using this technology and perhaps lowering LD rates, instead they seek to block out the technology from the public.

Actually they *are* using the technology -- digital networking. They are just keeping the markup. It costs less that 2 cents a minute to produce a New York to London call but AT&T charges me more than 50 cents a minute. That sort of markup can't last. They need more copetition. Iphone is just part of the disintermediation. DCF