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."

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Verizon can goto hell.

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In my town Verison has a DSLAM installed in the CO and tells you, via online account access, that one qualifies for DSL. However they refuse to sell the service to ANYONE.

I have talked to several of the local Verizon techs and they are at a lost to explain why it isn't sold.

The can goto hell