Volume II

Issue : 8: April 15, 2004

• U.S. Broadband Industry May be Forced to Share Following Cable Modem Decision
• UN E-commerce Group Releases Revised Draft Convention on the Use of Data Messages in International Contracts
• Supreme Court of Canada to Hear Criminal Spam Case
• U.S. Senate Bill Introduced to Grant Federal Government Exclusive Regulatory Authority Over VoIP
• U.S. Advocacy Groups Lobby FCC to Protect VoIP from Regulations
• CRTC Releases Preliminary View on VoIP Services
• PGA Tour Wins Battle over the Internet Posting of Real-Time Golf Scores
• British Columbia and Alberta Exempt from PIPEDA
• Canadian Privacy Commissioner's E-kit for Businesses
• Eight European Nations Fail to Implement the E-Privacy Directive
• Google Mail Alleged to Violate European Privacy Laws
• Florida Court Orders RIAA to Bring Individual Suits against Alleged File Swappers
• Federal Government Called Upon to Ban Internet Pharmacies
• Internet Pharmacy Sues Health Canada

Home > Volume II > Issue 8: April 15, 2004 > U.S. Advocacy Groups Lobby FCC to Protect VoIP from Regulations

U.S. Advocacy Groups Lobby FCC to Protect VoIP from Regulations

In a letter sent on April 7, 2004, dozens of conservative and lower-tax advocacy groups urged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael Powell to protect VoIP services from the substantial regulations governing traditional phone services. The FCC is currently considering what rules should govern VoIP services that partially travel over the traditional phone network. It had already decided that the traditional phone service regulations will not apply to Internet-to-Internet phone calls and instant-messaging communications that do not use the phone network.

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