VoIP Regulation, SIP Insurrection

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday January 21, 2005 @03:11AM from the insurgents-vs-incumbents dept.

Chris Holland writes "As voice communications are evolving beyond traditional phone systems and making better use of the Internet, Aswath Rao is offering regulation-advocating counterpoints to Dr. Daniel Ryan's original analysis of various VoIP industry players' arguments for deregulation. Many of the above discussions revolve around closed, regulatory-scrutiny-fostering voice communications ecosystems reserved to a small, resourceful elite. Meanwhile, an open Internet protocol which provides support for all forms of real-time communications including Text, Voice and Video, with a few open-sourced server implementations and free client solutions is starting to gain serious ground: The Session Initiation Protocol enables just about anybody with little resources to become their own Real-Time Communications Giant."

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Re:No 9-1-1 by spacefrog · 2005-01-21 05:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

Bullshit.

I have Vonage, and we most certainly do have 911 service. In the case of Vonage, I can directly tell them the EXACT address that the phone is currently located at.

This is important to me, since I have a California area code and billing address, but the phone is in Washington right now.