Free World Dialup Under The Gun Again

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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Three years ago? And one year ago?

[revolvement]

Then this is obviously a dupe news post.

Re:VoIP and tech jobs

[revolvement]

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

Re:VoIP and tech jobs

[Anonymous Coward]

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..

Re:Powell was on screensavers the other day..

[cranos]

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

Re:sheesh, kids these days...

[wart]

I for one welcome our new Amish overlords.

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