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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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i'm lazy! w et000t!!!!!!!!!!
could somebody please explain it to me? I'm curious.
could somebody please explain it to me? I'm curious.
Please explain in detail. I'm a little slow.
first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...
If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
Are you 100% fully gay?
of Fiorina just after the butt plug battery failed.
oh, im sorry, i think you were meant to say
free world under the gun again
thanks to the Americans, the whole planet is heading closer to WWIII.
Bush is a war criminal and should hang!
ANYONE BUT BUSH FOR '04!!!!
Bleh.
I believe this is the article he is refering to.
Governments may be happy to promote this alternative to your old phone line.
The more move to VoIP (or to Cellular/Mobile phones) the less encumberances the governments have to deal with when they want to tap someones phone line.
Ever wondered what the eye on the pyramid means?
hahahaahahahahaaha.
A Bush administration appointee not bought by special interests. That's really funny.
thanks. siff. That was hilarious.
You obviously haven't been watching the FCC's decisions under the current administration. Although there have been some rulings that do favor the public ( mostly hot-button issues like the do-not-call list and number portability ), it's been all about letting really big companies make as much money and own as much of the public's airwaves as possible.
The only _really_ good thing about Powell is he loves his Tivo. To bad he doesn't know the first thing about the engineering side of the businesses he's in charge of regulating, though. He also clearly doesn't think over-the-air broadcasting is worthwhile, which is too bad for anyone who doesn't want to pay monthly fees for content which could otherwise be 'free'.
This guy is getting pointers on giving good PR spin and being a politician, though, clearly being tutored by somebody.
over the last 100 years
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. You cheap Yankees can't really be THAT brainwashed or can you?