VoIP Services to be Regulated in Canada

jeffcm writes "It seems that the CRTC, Canada's equivalent to the FCC has decided that VoIP pricing and services should be regulated. From The Globe & Mail: "The CRTC confirmed that it has rejected arguments from Bell and Telus that VoIP should be left unregulated like other on-line applications. If their argument had won the day, their competitors say, the incumbent phone companies would have been allowed to limit the number of new entrants by slashing prices in the short term.""

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Re:Regulating internet traffic? Hm.

[ArielMT]

It seems to me that their goal is to regulate their equivalent to Ma Bell, not the Internet itself. However, given the Canadian government's socialist-leaning tendencies, I wouldn't doubt such a thing is far behind. Even VoIP has to come out of the Internet at some point and into a conventional telco exchange, right? What little the article tells me says that this is what the government's using as its basis for regulation.