Dial-up Users May Face Per Minute Internet Charges After Verizon Court Case Win

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Dial-up Users May Face Per Minute Internet Charges After Verizon Court Case Win

04-29-2006, 09:45 AM,

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Dial-up Users May Face Per Minute Internet Charges After Verizon Court Case Win

Quote:The US Court of Appeals in Boston ruled April 11 that Verizon Communications Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up users need to connect to the Internet -- in much the same way that they charge for long-distance or other calls.

The ruling came after Verizon sued Global NAPs Inc., a Quincy company that supplies local numbers to 28 Internet service providers for use by their dial-up customers...

Global NAPs and others argue that Verizon's victory could allow phone companies around the country to start hitting dial-up customers with per-minute fees that amount to a de facto tax....

full article: http://www.boston.com/business/technolog...e_dispute/

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