[Asterisk-Users] Re: FYI House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP

[Jason Stewart]

On 06/07/04 15:17 -0400, Joe Baptista wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:31:21 -0400
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan at well.com>
> To: politech at politechbot.com
> Subject: [Politech] House bill exports analog phone regs to VoIP
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> http://www.politechbot.com/docs/boucher.voip.bill.070604.pdf
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> 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.
>
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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