While the rest is true, I squeezed in under a little known ( or applied ) RCC ruling when the FCC ruled that Two Way radio providers that used their licensed frequencies to sell airtime services to customers were RCCs. All of that was technically exactly correct. Being so small we were exempt from all the rate requirements of the ILEC's and only had to pay the associated fees.
I wouldn't expect anyone outside that business to know that. It has allowed me to collect termination (reciprocal) compensation from both Verizon and SWB, now AT&T for a few decades now. Of course, as I know Chuck understands, I had to go to court to get them to pay. In short, if you knew the loophole, you could have gotten all those rights for the low 5 digits without other laws. Practically speaking, I agree with the point being made, just a fact note to Chuck's excellent history lesson. > Prior to that time, you would have had to be an RCC (Radio Common Carrier) > and you would have been regulated and you would have had to do rate cases > and tariff creation and could do only point to point. That 1996 act made > it > possible for all of us to make money as as WISP. > >
