No doubt after at&t locks up the local telephone/cable market, they will
push hard, with other providers, to completely change the billing
services such that one would pay for bits of data sent.  This instead of
a minute by minute rate based on distance, time of day, etc.  Or they'd
would sell you "generous" packages which allow you to send so many
e-mails to this region of the world for this price, a different price
for a different region etc.  Right now, as I understand it, much of the
information on the internet is sent via transmission systems separate
from the telephone industry in general. Perhaps someone can correct me,
but I do not think the back bone of the internet is exclusively at&t
lines.

Steve

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