We’re on the threshold of “the most significant change in telecommunications since Alexander Graham Bell called out for Mr. Watson,” according to Kevin Werbach — thanks to voice over IP (VOIP), the Internet-based approach to telephony that’s poised to turn voice telephony into a subset of Internet services.
If you haven’t already invested a little time to understand the issues here, Kevin’s testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee this week makes a great introduction. He makes a good case for keeping VOIP relatively free of the regulatory constraints and outdated layers of charges that hem in the old Bell System successors. If these new technologies are to deliver on their promise, they can’t be tied to the corporate carcasses of the system they are likely to replace.
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