FCC liberates 'free' net calls: agency also launches rulemaking on cable-delivered VoIP phone service.(Federal Communications Commission)
Multichannel News, February, 2004 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Internet phone calls that are free to the consumer and don't come in contact with the traditional telephone network won't be regulated by any level of government, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday. The 3-2 vote marked the agency's first attempt to come to grips with the Internet's capability to complete phone calls the same way it routes e-mail and instant messages around the global computer network.
PULVER SPUR Last year, a company called Pulver.com--better known as a sponsor of Internet-related business conferences--asked the FCC to declare its Internet-based phone service, called Free World Dialup (FWD), exempt from regulation. More precisely, Pulver.com requested a ruling that FWD was neither a...
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