[opendtv] Re: FCC on VoIP
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 07:12:47 -0700
Started one on McGreevey (no responses, hard to call it a thread) or used it
as another example of the difference between live and non-live TV.
John Willkie
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Cliff Benham
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I guess so...You started one on New Jersey's Gov last week...
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of John Willkie
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This has to do with broadcasting or digital television or cable or
satellites just exactly how?
Can I start a thread here on terrorism and U.S. immigration policy?
John Willkie
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[mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Manfredi, Albert E
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Wow. I'm not sure how to read this.
On the one hand, VoIP should be controlled with more
precision by the FCC, just as the telephone lifeline service
is. If someone uses VoIP as their phone service, it makes
no objective sense for the FCC to regulate it less than it
regulates the traditional telco telephone service (in terms
of four or five nines reliability, uninterrupted service
during power outages, and so on).
But that would be an extra burden to data ISPs, primarily
those using the cable TV broadband nets, who want to start
offering telephone service. It would mean providing power
over their cables, or perhaps providing individual UPS
units to each subscriber and to each of their system
nodes?
What Powell says seems to be that regulations which now
govern telephone service will not apply to VoIP
regulations. Rather, VoIP should be treated like any IP
service. So if some people think Powell favored the big
telcos by not forcing them to share their local loop, here
he's favoring the cable TV systems, or so it would appear.
Seems to me that if VoIP telephony is regulated like web
browsing, perhaps the traditional telephone service should
also be freed from its stringent requirements.
A few years ago, at one of the IETF meetings, Vint Cerf
himself got up and said that the Internet will have
arrived when people can trust it as they do their
telephone. I'm not sure, but maybe this will come true
the other way around. That is, by degrading the telephone
service to equal their ISP connection?
Bert
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Powell says telecom regulation needs change
Paul Kapustka, Advanced IP Pipeline
Aug 24, 2004 (4:00 PM)
URL: http://www.commsdesign.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D3D30000388
ASPEN, Colo. - Saying voice-over-IP (VoiP) is the "killer app
for legal policy change," Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Michael Powell said Monday (Aug. 23) that the country's
telecom regulatory scheme needs a complete overhaul, the sooner
the better.
Speaking at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit,
Powell said the 1996 Telecom Act was a broken piece of law, and
one that hampers innovation and clarity in the fast-changing
telecom and Advanced IP services markets.
"It's dated legislation that doesn't fit the market," said
Powell of the Telecom Act.
Though Powell cautioned that a complete rewrite of the Act should
be done with consummate care -- "one of the most important things
is to get it right" -- he also said that Congress might consider
giving IP-based communications its own legal category, to help
end the endless litigation that now occurs whenever the FCC tries
to issue a decision.
"Just give IP its own category -- that's all I'm asking for at the
moment," Powell said. Though no legislation is likely to pass in
the near future, Powell did note that the disruptive force of new
technologies like VoIP is impossible to ignore.
VoIP presents a "classic manifestation of the moment of truth,"
Powell said, and will force legislators to bring more clarity to
what is a telecom service, what is a data service, and how (if at
all) IP communications should be regulated.
"This thing has resonance and speed," Powell said of VoIP. "There's
no way to dance around it. I love the anxiety, and I love the
screaming."
What Powell hopes is that Congress will follow his lead and
classify IP-based communications as something separate from the
traditional phone system. Only then, he said, will investment and
innovation flow.
"The seminal question is, do we convert the Internet into a big
black telephone, only because we're lazy?" Powell asked. "If you
don't win that battle, [you will] draw down progress by decades."
Copyright 2003 CMP Media
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