Joe Baptista
2004-Jul-06 12:17 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] FYI House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:31:21 -0400 From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@politechbot.com Subject: [Politech] House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP http://www.politechbot.com/docs/boucher.voip.bill.070604.pdf There's a new bill in the House of Representatives to regulate phone calls made over the Internet. It was introduced this evening by Reps. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and it's called the Advanced Internet Communications Services Act of 2004. I've placed the text online and have a summary and commentary at News.com. The AICS bill takes a more regulatory approach than a competing proposal from Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss. Boucher and Stearns say VoIP servcies "shall" be subject to access charges and universal service taxes -- which is a really big deal. More on this later. Bill text: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/boucher.voip.bill.070604.pdf News.com coverage: http://news.com.com/Congress+mulls+new+Net+phone+rules/2100-7352_3-5258191.html?tag=cd.top http://news.com.com/Can+VoIP+survive+Congress%3F/2010-1028_3-5256334.html?tag=st.rn _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
Jason Stewart
2004-Jul-07 05:29 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] Re: FYI House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP
On 06/07/04 15:17 -0400, Joe Baptista wrote:> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:31:21 -0400 > From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> > To: politech@politechbot.com > Subject: [Politech] House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP > > > > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/boucher.voip.bill.070604.pdf > > There's a new bill in the House of Representatives to regulate phone > calls made over the Internet. It was introduced this evening by Reps. > Rick Boucher, D-Va., and Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., and it's called the > Advanced Internet Communications Services Act of 2004. I've placed the > text online and have a summary and commentary at News.com. > > The AICS bill takes a more regulatory approach than a competing proposal > from Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss. Boucher and Stearns say VoIP servcies > "shall" be subject to access charges and universal service taxes -- > which is a really big deal. More on this later. ><snip> Makes sense for these guys. They're telecom industry puppets. Lets hope it gets shot down. See Boucher: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00002171&cycle=2004 See Stearns: http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00002782&cycle=2004