tlg
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Melbourne, FL
| reply to oliphant5
Re: People, VoIP is a CONTENT SERVICE
said by oliphant5  :
What's next, regulating web portals and streaming media? You can't regulate VoIP when they don't control the infrastructure. It's like regulating HBO and mandating reliability when they don't own the cable or satellite distributors.
I agree. But they would be regulating a protocol. It would be like only regulating NBC, but not any of the other content providers that you have available on your television.
The dialtone I receive comes from the equipment in my house, not by the VOIP provider. All the VOIP provider does is provide routing information, and IP centrex services.
I don't mind paying the USF charges, provided that the USF fund is used for 911 services. But in return the regional Telco's must provide 911 services to each and every home. In most cases you can get this now by just requesting it from the phone company. They will provide you with a phone line that can only dial 911.
So I can have VOIP services if I choose to as my main communication, and the VOIP provider would be exempt from providing 911 services as a requirement (one of the issues the states have). This would also leave me with an emergency phone for contacting 911 if need be.
I think that pretty much solves the issues that have been brought against the VOIP providers to date by various States. But I'm sure when you get it in front of a bunch of politicians they will manage to muck it up.
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