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said by DaBavarian  :I thought IPTV was an "information service" just like all of the VOIP providers that don't have to pay into all the fees that the traditional copper line phone companies pay into. No, IPTV is not an information service.
Here is the heart of the Vonage decision:
``capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications.´´ 47 U.S.C. § 153(20). The process of transmitting customer calls over the Internet requires Vonage to ``act on´´ the format and protocol of the information. 47 C.F.R. § 64.702(a).
IPTV as AT&T offers it would not clearly qualify (that would take a court to decide). YouTube would be a much closer example that would qualify.
In the absence of a finding that a service is an information service, it is a telecommunications or video service and the appropriate laws apply.
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