You should be more precise: The world except US is being ripped off by the US Telcos.
Reason: the situation you describe is true for all Internet-connections from outside the US. According to ITU we're talking about 500 Million (!) US$ anually at least that US Telcos would lose (or would have to charge to their US-clients) if the normal standard of halfway would be implemented. Please note that this does not give only unfair advantage to US-telcos but also unfair trading advantage to us-based companies (lower connection costs). The issue as such is recognized by ITU, however -due to close US-resistance as in other world organizations- not even a recomendation to change was possible. Cornelio ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, an NGO that is a GKP member*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
