FCC moving to break VoIP

Cory Doctorow 11:54 pm Tue Nov 11, 2003

David Isenberg points out that federal regulators have Voice-Over-IP telephony (see below) squarely in their sights, and are working hard to make it just as broken and screwed up as the old phone system:

I've known for several weeks that the FCC will be holding a hearing on Voice Over Internet Protocol on December 1. I had thought it would be like the delightfully informative and informal Rural Wireless Internet Service Provider Workshop that the FCC held on November 4. But this is not to be.

Apparently the December 1 meeting is to be a formal FCC hearing designed to legally circumvent the more normal, deliberative Notice of Inquiry process, which is designed to solicit, collect and consider a wide range of public comments.
The FCC is in a hurry. "Things have greatly accelerated over the last year," writes Powell to Wyden, "and so have the FCC's actions."

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