'Call-back' companies scrutinized

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The Federal Communications Commission is being closely watched as it prepares to address call-back services. Call-back services allow people outside the US to receive US international phone rates, rather than the usually higher ones they would pay in their own country. Providers say they are doing nothing illegal, but AT and T and other large telecommunication companies claim their lines are being used and they are not being reimbursed. Foreign operators are even more incensed.

Long Distance Telephone Svc, Telephone communications, exc. radio, Cases, Long distance telephone services, Long-distance telephone service, International Telecommunication Union, international

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Time-stamping makes digital signatures reliable; software can freeze content of electronic records and imprint them with irrefutable markers

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Digital time-data stamps will have a significant influence on various legal specialties, which can authenticate creation time and content even in an area as insecure as the Internet. Local user software uses a one-way algorithm to make a unique digital fingerprint for the data in the record. This hash goes to a central server computer which notes the time of receipt, combining all received during that one-second interval to a 'superhash.'

Telegraph & other communications, Specialized Telecom Services, Innovations, Software, Internet services, Technology application, Digital signatures, Digital signatures (Authentication), Legal documents

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Information superhighway is beset by local fees: efforts by municipalities to collect fees deter development of communications service

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The federal government should create laws limiting the ability of municipalities to charge fees for the use of existing structures or land by the information superhighway. Municipalities are charging fees greater than their cost of policing communications services, meaning that the information superhighway could bypass poor communities. This is not what the government had in mind, and a legislative fix is needed.

Economic aspects, Internet, User fees, Public easements, local, Municipal franchises

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