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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. I love my dialup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dialup is cool.

    5K/s over a month = 12.5 GB/month, more than the monthly limits you guys get with broadband.

  2. Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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.

    TMA, MBIGIO.

  3. story with FCC and NO JANET JACKSON? by dlt074 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FINALY! they need to stick to harasing her and leave voip alone.

  4. FWD? I thought that meant Front-Wheel-Drive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Which by the way is not the drivetrain setup of a REAL man. I'm probably talking to the wrong crowd, but who cares.

  5. Re:Why is this significant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What the bloody hell is a ONE KEA?