[asterisk-biz] FCC: Telcos Must Interconnect VoIP

[Dean Collins]

Hi Matthew,
How were they not interconnecting in the past? What was happening when
VoIP carriers tried to deliver calls to these numbers?

 

Regards,

Dean Collins
Cognation Pty Ltd
dean at cognation.net
+1-212-203-4357 Ph
+1-917-207-3420 Mb


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-biz-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Rubenstein
> Sent: Friday, 2 March 2007 6:07 PM
> To: Asterisk-Biz
> Subject: [asterisk-biz] FCC: Telcos Must Interconnect VoIP
> 
> 	The FCC ruled that TimeWarner's VoIP service must be freely
> interconnected with POTS service by telcos, even though the FCC
doesn't
> classify VoIP as a "telecom *service*":
> http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6420646.html?display=Breaking
> +News .
> 
> 	Does this affect Asterisk operators (eg. competing with TW)? Any
> previous restrictions now lifted? Continuing restrictions not avoided
> because this decision is TW-specific? Or was TW facing restrictions
that
> Asterisk operators haven't faced?
> --
> 
> (C) Matthew Rubenstein
> 
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