VoIP Regulations: What Lessons Can We Learn From Wireless?
11/25/2004
At the March 2004 Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) convention in Atlanta, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) was on everyone's minds and everyone's tongues. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell devoted much of his CTIA 2004 keynote discussion to VoIP as the next "killer app," which "is [not just] going to be a competitive revolution for the wireline [industry], but for the wireless guys as well." On regulatory panels throughout the three-day convention, other FCC officials and wireless industry representatives echoed the Chairman's position, citing VoIP as hottest issue before the Commission in 2004.
Written by Mintz Levin member, Sara F.Leibman, and published in Internet Telephony, Vol. 7/No. 11, November 2004, this article covers such topics as:
- "Social" Regulation
- Universal Service Fund Contributions
- State Regulation
- Intercarrier Compensation
- Incumbent LEC Regulation, and more.
Sara Leibman is a member in the firm's Communications and Information Technology practice group. Her practice encompasses all areas of telecommunications law, with a special emphasis on representation of wireless telecommunications carriers.
