Internet Week > VOIP > FCC To Consider New Regulations On VOIP Services > November 7, 2003
VOIP is a disruptive technology for the telecom industry. How FCC and state regulators deal with it will be critically important to the industry and to consumers. There's no question in my mind that VOIP will ultimately be the infrastructure on which nearly all landline and probably wireless voice services will be delivered.
Critically important is the pace, security and public benefit engendered by this upheaval. This changeover is more disruptive by several orders of magnitude as telephony was on telegraphy . The regulators may not be positioned to manage it because the monopoly world in which they exert greatest policy and pricing influence has fragmented.
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