said by kapil 
:What I don't get, and I mean REALLY don't get, is how these telco execs are confused about the fact that their customers are already paying them for the use of their network. But these are also the geniuses that think we're going to keep paying $50-$100 per month for dial tone...so nothing that comes out of the mouths of these fools surprises me anymore
That's just it, they don't think you will continue to pay that much for dial tone. So they are doing what they have always done and that's insure they get a chunk of every competing services' revenue through access tariffs.
