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Free World Dialup Under The Gun Again

Posted by timothy on from the dealing-with-bureaucrats dept.

PetiePooo writes "The FCC will be holding an Open Commission Meeting [PDF] Thursday. Number one on the agenda is a 'Petition for Declaratory Ruling that Pulver.com's Free World Dialup is neither Telecommunications nor a Telecommunications Service.' By passing this, the FCC will, in Jeff's words, 'send a strong signal to consumers and capital markets that the FCC is not interested in subjecting end-to-end IP Communications services to traditional voice telecom regulation under the Communications Act.' For those unfamiliar with it, FWD is sort of like DNS for VoIP. You give it a FWD phone number, it gives you the IP address of the associated SIP phone. Slashdot touched on FWD three years ago, and again last year."

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  1. Three years ago? And one year ago? by revolvement · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then this is obviously a dupe news post.

    1. Re:Three years ago? And one year ago? by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unfortunately, the telecom industry is making a dupe submission to the FCC that's been not accepted every other time it's been submitted...

  2. Re:VoIP and tech jobs by revolvement · · Score: 5, Funny

    When automated processes control the world, we won't need jobs. It's a step forward. Can I take the blue pill now?

  3. Re:VoIP and tech jobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    When automated processes control the world, we won't need jobs. It's a step forward.

    Kind of like when Skynet goes online?

    oh wait..

  4. sheesh, kids these days... by Thud457 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Who says you need a job?

    If you need food, you can either hunt, gather or farm.

    You do know how to build your own house, right?

    --

    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    1. Re:sheesh, kids these days... by wart · · Score: 4, Funny

      I for one welcome our new Amish overlords.

      (Sorry, I couldn't resist...)

  5. Re:Powell was on screensavers the other day.. by cranos · · Score: 3, Funny

    So when its violence on TV he wants to be "hands off" but when its boobs he wants to be "hands on"?

    Im sorry I'll go away now

  6. Re:VoIP and tech jobs by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are no uninhabited islands in the Caribbean really, and the place is simply crawling with people and gunboats.

    No, what I'm working on is a new Polynesia in the south seas, where hundreds of perfectly nice little islands are virtually untouched and uncared for.

    Kind of an anti-Polynesia really. Instead of living on the islands and voyaging for transport between them the culture will be sea based and only use the islands as supporting infrastructure for remaining at sea. Filling stations and rest stops, as it were.

    The only frontier left for a free people is outside of anybody's territorial waters.

    And the UN is trying to close that "loophole" as well.

    KFG