Powell Says He's Against Regulating VoIP
from the sounds-good dept
Despite some fears (expressed last month by former FCC chair Reed Hundt) that the FCC had already made up their mind to regulate VoIP, it certainly doesn't sound like that from the description of today's FCC meeting on VoIP as written up by the Washington Post. FCC Chair Michael Powell made all the right statements about why regulating VoIP at this point would probably be bad, and that the various "problems" people described in not regulating VoIP can be solved through other methods.
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Re: VoIP regulation
The House voted unanimously to extend a permanent moratorium on Internet taxes. A few Senators (former greedy governors) are holding it up. Members of Congress still get letters about "Bill 602P" -- they're not about to do it for real.
Republicans are, in general, deregulatory. Right now, they control "the government". So I see no reason to suspect some dark conspiracy to regulate. So, to veer back on topic, there's no reason to think Mr Powell, who just fought hard to deregulate media, isn't going to fight just as hard to keep VOIP deregulated.
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