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

Robert Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Tue Sep 15 19:57:53 PDT 1998



At 1:46 PM -0400 on 9/14/98, bill.stewart at 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
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