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California Demands Licensure For VoIP Providers

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @05:13AM from the extortionate-troglodytes dept.

muonzoo writes "Looks like California will be wrangling up the VoIP companies and mowing them down. Or, at least licensing them. CNET has a story about state legislators' push for all VoIP companies in the state to carry a Telephone Operator License. CNET also has a quick blurb about Vonage and how they have recently started charging customers a 'Regulatory Recovery Fee.' Ugly stuff for a young industry." Here's our earlier post about Vonage charging the regulatory recovery fee.

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Here's a link by Sir+Haxalot · 2003-10-01 05:14 · Score: 4, Informative

to the same story on ZDNet.

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Vonage is NOT P2P by justMichael · 2003-10-01 05:38 · Score: 4, Informative

With Vonage you can call ANY phone number you want, not just some other VoIP phone.

And you don't get a "handset" you get a Cisco ATA186 that you plug any phone you want into.

It talks to their servers becasue at some point it has to get injected back into the POTS network as an analog call.