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2 edits |  Comcast to Missouri: We're not a Telco, You Can't Regulate
Comcast to Missouri: We're not a Telco, You Can't Regulate
A disagreement over whether or not the Missouri Public Service Commission has the authority to regulate a national company's Internet phone service has spilled over to federal court.
Comcast Corp., a national cable and Internet service provider based in Philadelphia, filed a complaint in federal court in Kansas City against an order from the PSC that Comcast's Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service falls under the umbrella of a "fixed telecommunication service" and is subject to an array of state regulations.
Comcast believes the service should be classified as an "informational service," exempt from state regulatory guidelines. 1st link
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| said by funchords  :Comcast to Missouri: We're not a Telco, You Can't Regulate A disagreement over whether or not the Missouri Public Service Commission has the authority to regulate a national company's Internet phone service has spilled over to federal court.
Comcast Corp., a national cable and Internet service provider based in Philadelphia, filed a complaint in federal court in Kansas City against an order from the PSC that Comcast's Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, service falls under the umbrella of a "fixed telecommunication service" and is subject to an array of state regulations.
Comcast believes the service should be classified as an "informational service," exempt from state regulatory guidelines. 1st link2nd link Those links are the same exact article, just different sites. | |
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Oh I see, Comcrap isn't a telecommunications company... that's why they're a member of the trade group NCTA, the National Cable and TELECOMMUNCATIONS industry Ass.
I guess it's a telecommunications service when they market it to customers, but not when it comes time to deal with regulations. Comcrap is a bunch of assclowns. | |
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said by Cheese :Those links are the same exact article, just different sites. I should have explained why I did that. I did that because those where the only two copies of that story that I could find on the net, and one copy might disappear for whatever reason. It's not like a lot of syndicated stories that are copied 500 places. | |
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If I were Comcast (I'm not, unfortunately), I'd lobby the governments to reduce the Telcos' taxes to that of my own, to make the playing field level, rather than lobby that I get a lower amount.
The idea is that taxation is too high.
The bigger idea is that if Comcast were mature, they'd get a better deal for themselves and everybody else.
If Comcast goes to the table and says "hey look, I don't have fair competition in terms of the narrow field of view of state taxation (even though there may be other nongovernmental and other-jurisdiction-governmental factors that make the total different), because the Telcos are being taxed too much: please reduce their taxation to the levels I have", then I think they'd get further. Even though the politicians, being thieves, would balk at the idea of Comcast asking to tax anybody (even their competition) lower, they would see that they are not acting in their own self-interest in terms of the actual amount of money for the face value of what they're saying, and see that taxing differently is absolutely rediculous. As a result, the end governmental decision would probably be to average the two out, rather than raise the total amount Comcast the real life brat idiot retarded child bitch pays in taxes via its customers to that EQUAL of the telephone companies, causing total taxation and theft to RISE rather than level out, making it less level for everyone overall, benefiting ONLY the telcos. | |
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