Vonage Fights Minnesota's Attempts To Regulate VoIP

rmccoy writes "Vonage said Thursday it intends to fight the first-ever decision by a U.S. state to regulate companies that provide Internet-based phone services. Minnesota's Public Utilities Commission unanimously decided two weeks ago that the New Jersey-based voice over IP (VoIP) provider is subject to the rules and regulations that cover traditional phone companies."

Comments

Re:Isn't it awesome

[Eric Ass Raymond]

In Europe the VoiP will be most likely banned because it cannot be regulated by the government (who is, of course, supposed to protect the consumer). So get off your high horse.

Re:I hope they win.

[zulux]

And for what benefits? None.

Alot of those taxes go for two things:

1) Subsudising phone service for deadbeats who won't get a job.
2) Subsudising phone service for rich people who want a trophy house in the middle of nowhere.

As far as I'm concerned, we shouldent have to subsudise either group. Instead, we should use the money to add a spell-checker to Mozilla, so I woulden't look like an idot that can't spell 'subsudising' properly.