[Asterisk-Users] Re: Is this good or bad

[Michael B. Murdock]

Partially accurate Tom,

What is more likely to happen is that a new form of billing mediation not
dissimilar to the current long distance carriage mediation will be adopted.
ILECS will then charge "termination fees" of some sort for the last mile
access. This will likely be addressed by new regulation once VOIP gains a
larger share of the market (within 5 to 10 years).

-- Michael Murdock


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Eugene Hayden" <haydenth at msu.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 1:26 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Is this good or bad


> After speaking with an employee at the Michigan Public Sevice Commission,
> I'm under the impression that initially this is a good thing, but long
term
> a very bad thing.  The FCC strictly regulates ILECs and CLECs, and
requires
> ILECs to unbundle their lines and let CLECs lease them at a reasonable
rate.
> As far as I know, this only applies to analog telephony.  Therefore,
> longterm, the big telcos such as SBC, Quest, Bell South, and Verizon are
> going to start shifting their lines to pure IP - thus they don't have to
> unbundle any network elements for the CLECs.  This will basically drive
any
> of the CLECs who don't have an infastructure in place out of business
> because the ILEC will have zero requirements to share any network
elements.
>
> Eventually, companies like Vonage are going to get shafted because SBC (or
> whomever) can refuse to terminate traffic from them because they will only
> be handling IP traffic and not analog voice.  The FCC won't be able to do
> anything and neither will any state regulatory bodies because both have
> pledged to have zero regulation in IP traffic.
>
> I'm not an attorney, just a college student studying telecom, so take my
> opinion for what it's worth...
>
>  --
> tom
>
> james writes:
>
> > The FCC is now the governing body for Internet based telephony in the
U.S. Vonage considers this a win, but now they are officially regulated.
> >
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