The FCC has reconfirmed the Internet's exemption. Consumers will see no new charges on their Internet or phone bills. The FCC will not impose long distance charges for dialing up the Internet. The exemption from long distance access charges is solid as a rock and has been upheld in court. The FCC will not allow long distance charges for local calls to the internet.
States have no power to impose long distance charges.
Only the FCC can do that, and we declared our jurisdiction over this traffic. We have clarified how companies pay each other for this traffic and we have done so in a way that prohibits the assessment of long distance charges. This can only help consumers. The Internet has become extremely important to a lot of people in the last few years. We get letters every week from people for whom access to the Internet has opened up whole new possibilities for business, social service, and life.