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

[Steve Totaro]

Are there any sites setup to let the powers that be, know that some (voters)
people are against these kind of moves?  If not, lets get it going.

arguing the homeland security aspect may be difficult in the current
environment but FEES can only hurt an emerging technology!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Stewart" <jstewart at rtl.org>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:29 AM
Subject: [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 at well.com>
> > To: politech at 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
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