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

[Jay Milk]

Hmm... So I can obtain the CPN for blocked calls from SIP headers?  How
-- would love to do that to telemarketers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Stewart [mailto:jstewart at rtl.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 7:29 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> 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=N000021
71&cycle=2004

See Stearns:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00002782&cycle=2
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