Minnesota: Phone rules apply to VoIP

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:04:40 -0700
> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
>
>
>
> [Note:  I'm crossposting this from the Cybertelecom list as it adds 
> additional information to the Vonage in MN story that I just posted. It 
> looks like VoIP is coming under siege at the state level. Meantime, we 
> just keep waiting and waiting to see what the FCC is going to do about 
> it.  DLH]
>
> At 12:53 -0700 8/21/03, Richard Shockey wrote:
> > From: Richard Shockey <richard () SHOCKEY US>
> > To: CYBERTELECOM-L () LISTSERV AOL COM
> > Subject: Re: dwon the slippery slope - your there ...
> > Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 12:53:44 -0700
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> > At 01:42 PM 8/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > > This will keep telecom lawyers busy for awhile if it spreads
> >
> > It already has ...
> >
> > Full employment for the Federal Communications Bar Assn and we haven't even
> > seen the litigation yet on the Triennial Review... what an industry <sigh>
> >
> > This from North Carolina ..
> >
> > <http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/08/18/story3.html?page=1>
> >
> > and Alabama
> >
> > "Alabama PSC at its Commission meeting yesterday (8/12/03), ordered a
> > Declaratory Proceeding on VOIP in response to a request by 31 of Alabama's
> > ILECs for a Declaratory Ruling finding that:  (1) providers of intrastate
> > phone-to-phone IP telephone service or other Voice over Internet Protocol
> > (VOIP) configurations (collectively, "IP Telephone Service") are
> > "transportation companies" as defined by Alabama Code 37-2-1 (1975); (2)
> > providers of intrastate IP Telephony Service are subject to APSC rules
> > applicable to the provision of telephone service, including the filing of
> > tariffs; and (3) providers of IP Telephony Service are responsible for
> > the payment of intrastate access charges for the origination or
> > termination of non-local traffic from or to the ILEC's public switched
> > telephone network that originate and terminate in Alabama. It is under
> > Docket No. 29016."
>
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