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batterup
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Re: We're still waiting......

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said by russotto See Profile :

There is no free market involved here. There's termination fees imposed by fiat.
The delicious irony of this is that the ILECs paid millions in lobbying money to get these termination fees so that they could gouge smaller companies.

Now it's biting them in the ass, just like it did when dialup got big.
The rural ILECs get a much bigger termination fee then Verizon-NJ. If all fees were equal the leaches would not be in Iowa.
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calvoiper

join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA

 Two minor points--First, these are "access fees", charged to LD providers. "Termination fees" are what local ILECs and CLECs pay each other for passing traffic. (They have similar characteristics but are treated differently in regulatory structure. There is also a reasonable argument that these fees should not exist as the individual costs of both originating traffic from and terminating traffic to an end user should be paid by that end user.)

Second, it's "leeches", not "leaches".

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