Verizon Ruling May Tax Dial-Up Customers

cellocgw writes "The Boston Globe is reporting that a court ruling in Verizon's favor could effectively allow phone companies to charge dial-up users on a per-minute basis." From the article: "About 68 percent of US internet users now connect via broadband, according to the latest data from Neilsen//NetRatings. That still leaves millions of users connecting the old way, in which modems in their home call local numbers over a telephone line to access the Internet. Precisely how many people were affected by the court ruling is unknown. Good said the number was in the thousands, but that Global NAPs did not have exact numbers and could not disclose the identities of all the companies that relied on Global NAPs for dial-up numbers."

Comments

It's like the lottery

[Anonymous Coward]

You know - a tax on the stupid.

Re:more information

[Anonymous Coward]

Since nobody is going to read that document anyways, can you please provide us an inaccurate and sensationalized summary please?

Re:Moses: Set my people free.

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll fly a jet into Verizon's headquarters?

So what

[Neon Aardvark]

Years ago when I used dial-up, I had to pay per minute, because local calls aren't free in my country.

It never did me any harm. It just added to the excitement of downloading 100MB porno mpegs.