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breathless
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Joined: Feb 13, 2004
Posts: 22
Location: Salem WI
Posted:
Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:12 am
Post subject: Phone companies VS Voip
Interesting article in todays Chicago Tribune business section about how some regulatory boards in Illinois want it treating like a regular land line system and taxed the same. Article goes on to say that SBC wants to charge each call from a
Voip
that enters its system to be billed like a regular long distance call. Just thought some of you may be interested in reading article.
Vonage
is the best thing to happen to consumers in a long time and now everyone (even politicians) want their share of profits.
MikesF271974
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Joined: Mar 09, 2004
Posts: 71
Posted:
Thu Mar 11, 2004 4:49 pm
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Tell them to go to hell!!! The Way I see it, we shouldn't have to pay a penny, cause at one time it used to be free.
ckoehncke
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Joined: Jan 31, 2004
Posts: 104
Posted:
Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:28 pm
Post subject: Taxes -- it's what it's all about
Voip
and
Vonage
type services are clearly disruptive to the tax n' spend attributes that have plagued telecom services.
It's been estimated though that 5-15% of most local government budgets are in fact from telecom taxes.
I have completed some research into understanding what's on your telephone bill and who gets the money. It's fairly lengthy but I hope interesting to you. Here's the link:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ckoehncke1/kranky/9.html
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