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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. Re:Why is this significant? by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, and that's most likely why current telecom providers want this to be considered a regulated service, so that only they can provide it. Right now, its a service the Ma Bells have the abilities to provide, but they don't because they wouldn't be able to charge for it while FWD is still in existance.

    FWD is an enabler that helps the VoIP to phone linkers, but is not a VoIP to phone linker themselves.

  2. Mirror! by FiberOpPraise · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since the site is getting real slow with only 3 posts, here is a mirror:
    Mirror

  3. FCC and tapping VoIP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a link to an article about the Feds wanting more time before the FCC rules on VoIP so they can figure out how to tap into VoIP calls.

  4. Asterisk is the answer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use Asterisk. If everyone starts to use asterisk then how are they going to keep track.