FCC chief in VoIP warning

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:22:08 -0400
From: Claudio Gutiérrez <cgutierrez () improvement cl>
Subject: FCC chief in VoIP warning
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, on Tuesday issued a 
stark warning to US telecom groups that a wave of competition from 
internet-based telephone calls would turn the industry on its head.

"If you are an incumbent you, in my opinion, ought to be terrified," he 
told the US cable industry's annual convention in New Orleans. "You ought 
to be terrified because we are lowering the barriers to offering a service 
to which you have dedicated a massive infrastructure."

Michael Powell's warning comes as large US cable groups, long distance 
telecommunication groups and a handful of start-up telecom operators are 
aggressively rolling out consumer broadband VoIP (voice over Internet 
Protocol) telephone services which are cheaper than the traditional service 
offered by the incumbent regional operators, known as Baby Bells.

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