Internet telephony offers cheap long-distance calls

Discount Long Distance Digest News reports that the average price per minute for making a long-distance or international call over the Internet is 3.3 cents, a substantial savings over the average per minute long-distance rate.This is done by using the Internet to bypass telecommunications carriers. The America’s Carriers Telecommunication Association would like to change that.
ACTA, a trade association for independent long-distance companies, filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission March 5, 1996, asking the FCC to apply the existing telecommunications laws to Internet access, and ultimately, Internet telephony.
In the same petition, ACTA asked the FCC to restrict…