Editing CompuServe (section)

=== CCAC ===
CompuServe, and its outside telecommunications attorney, Randy May, directed appeals to the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) to exempt data networks from having to pay the common carrier access charge (CCAC) that was levied by the telephone [[local exchange carrier]]s (primarily the [[Baby Bell]] companies) on long-distance carriers. The primary argument was that data networking was a new industry, and the country would be served better by not exposing this important new industry to the aberrations of the voice telephone economics (the CCAC is the mechanism used to subsidize the cost of local telephone service from long-distance revenue). The FCC agreed with CompuServe's argument, and the consequence is that all dial-up networking in the United States, whether using private networks or the public internet, is much less expensive than it otherwise would have been.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}