unido making commercial use of the net

[S.J.Leviseur]

In article <8805 at chinet.chi.il.us> les at chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>It does seem like there should be some commercial or government sites that
>have excess satellite bandwidth that could be used to pass news during the
>off hours.  Has anyone looked into that possibility?
>
Yes, when we looked into it this was is illegal in the UK. You could
not use a private network as a common carrier without paying the PTT
for doing so. Strangely enough this costs about the same as using the
PTT to carry it for you... :-(

	sean