Telecoms operators may have to share revenue from dial-up connections

The Telecommunications Regulatory Office (URT) yesterday proposed that telecoms operators should pay Internet Service Providers (ISPs) a part of their revenue from providing connections to web sites. At present, all the income derived from providing dial-up connections remains with the telecoms operator, such as TPSA. The URT suggests that the charge for a connection between an operator and ISP should be the same as among telecoms operators. In the first three quarters of the year, TPSA earned zl.309 million from dial-up connections. Rzeczpospolita estimates that if the URT proposal had been in effect, zl.15.6 million of this would have gone to the ISPs. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B3) P.W.