[Asterisk-biz] Starting a Phone Service in USA
Alex Pui
alex.pui at act-labs.com
Sun Jan 9 03:09:59 MST 2005
Once e-mail will get into PSTN, things are going to be different. I think
Rehan is talking about VOIP+PSTN, if it is a purely VOIP providers, then it
should be safe to stay away from regulation.
Alex
At 01:44 2005-1-9 -0800, Matt Klein wrote:
>to add some additional perspective, e-mail is a communications service.
>unless I'm unaware of any late news, voip is no different than sending an
>e-mail as far as tax laws are currently concerned. all about defining at
>this point, I believe.
>
>this will change.
>
>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Matt Klein wrote:
>
>>
>>Additionally, these providers may already be paying usf etc fees to their
>>providers... i know of some that do.
>>
>>On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Matt Klein wrote:
>>
>>>2 things happened last year:
>>>1) us has passed law that the internet cannot be taxed
>>>2) us has left voip out of that passing
>>>.....
>>>
>>>On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Rehan Ahmed wrote:
>>>
>>>>Well my point was, how can there be so many voip phone service
>>>>providers popping
>>>>up, without fulfilling al the below and getting away with all the taxes.
>>>>Rehan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:44:55 -0600, Rehan Ahmed <rehan1 at rehan.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Any one wishes to comment on this ?
>>>>>>Rehan
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