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V O I P O N D E R W E E K L Y W R A P
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Published by Voiponder - May 11, 2006
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
[1] Featured Blogs
[2] Latest from Industry
[3] News Briefs
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[1] FEATURED BLOGS
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Telephony, Regulation, and VoIP
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INSIDE: Regulation & Policies
BY: Ken Camp
POSTED: May 09, 2006
A new article by Ken Camp, published at Realtime VoIP, discusses telephony regulations, describing some existing regulatory issues surrounding telecommunications and how they might impact VoIP services. The following is an introduction to this article: "Bringing new technologies such as VoIP into service presents a wide range of technical challenges. Given the highly regulated environment of telecommunications, VoIP presents a set of regulatory challenges. For the most part, these challenges present hurdles to VoIP service providers who want to deliver commercial services to consumers and businesses and don't directly impact business VoIP deployment. ...Businesses that embrace managed VoIP services might want to review some of these regulatory issues, such as E-911 services, with the managed VoIP service provider." >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/telephony_regulation_and_voip/
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How to Increase Broadband Competition
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INSIDE: Business Strategies
BY: David Isenberg
POSTED: May 09, 2006
Susan Crawford, seeking to learn from Korea and Japan, identifies three routes towards broadband competition... Facilities based competition: Still waiting for that mythical third wire, or perhaps some unused, unlicensed TV spectrum, but not holding my breath. (Broadband over powerline? It is such an encumbered technology that it is its own barrier to entry.) Wholesale access: Been there, tried that, but the Bells wouldn't unbundled elements... >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/how_to_increase_broadband_competition/
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Comparative Broadband Ideas
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INSIDE: Regulation & Policies
BY: Susan Crawford
POSTED: May 08, 2006
The primary reason that Japan and Korea do so much better than the U.S. on any measurement of broadband (availability, penetration, price, speed) is that there is fierce competition in the market for broadband internet access in these countries. ...How do you increase competition in the U.S. for broadband access? Right now, we have giants fighting with each other -- cable and telephone companies. Small numbers of these companies control 80%-90% of the market for broadband access... >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/comparative_broadband_ideas/
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Verizon's Price Cut: Raising the Stakes for Vonage
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INSIDE: Business Strategies
BY: Jon Arnold
POSTED: May 06, 2006
Verizon's price cut for VoIP can't be anything but bad news for Vonage, and you knew it was just a matter of time until the RBOCs -- well, all two of them at this point -- played the price card to put tacks on the road as Vonage speeds along towards its IPO. In all fairness, Vonage started this game back in 2004 when the threat of them being the RBOC-killer was more perceived than real. However, they succeeded in baiting AT&T into a costly price war that slowed up their CallVantage roll out... >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/verizons_cut_raising_stakes_vonage/
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Network Neutrality Upsetting Worldviews?
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INSIDE: Regulation & Policies
BY: Susan Crawford
POSTED: Apr 27, 2006
With everyone talking about network neutrality, with all the heat, it didn't feel good to have to be in NY today and miss the goings-on in Washington. I watched part of the late afternoon markup session online, with Rep. Barton sounding awfully effective as he marched steadily through Title III -- quickly taking votes, soothing congress people who were suggesting soon-to-be-rejected amendments, and sounding confident. The only substantive work I heard was the rejection of an amendment that would have left in place all state laws that regulate the subjects of the bill -- like mini wireless networks. But the real news had already happened... >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/network_neutrality_upsetting_worldviews/
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Help! This is Not an Emergency
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INSIDE: Regulation & Policies
BY: Martin Geddes
POSTED: Apr 27, 2006
I like the drift of the Pulver/Evslin proposal on emergency communications, and wish there was as vigorous a debate going on over here. I just hope we in the UK aren't jerked out of complacency by some major disaster -- although widespread use of pre-paid cellular means the problem of sunken landlines isn't as acute. Yet I can't help but wonder why the poor public has to wait for a disaster before they're given partial control over how their number maps to different destinations and services. Why can't I get a voicemail service from someone other than my connectivity provider? Why is ENUM hostage to the telcos, whose interest lies in ensuring that new services can only come from them? >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/enum_help_not_emergency/
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[2] LATEST FROM INDUSTRY
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TelEvolution Selects Iotum for Advanced Telecommunications Services
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BY: Iotum
POSTED: May 06, 2006
Voice 2.0 pioneers TelEvolution and iotum to provide iotum's advanced telecommunications services on the PhoneGnome platform. >>>
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http://www.voiponder.com/posts/televolution_iotum_advanced_telecommunications/
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[3] News Briefs
IPTV a $44B Market by 2009, Says New Study
May 11, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/iptv_44b_market_by_2009/
Enterprise VoIP Use to Double By 2010, Says Survey Report
May 11, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/enterprise_voip_double_by_2010/
Smaller Cable Companies Take Aim at Network Neutrality
May 08, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/cable_companies_aim_net_neutrality/
Verizon Warns Financial Sector of Network Neutrality
May 08, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/verizon_financial_sector_net_neutrality/
Net Neutrality Concerns are 'Hypothetical', Says Verizon VP
May 06, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/net_neutrality_concerns_hypothetical/
VOIP Fees to Rise with New Regulation in the Horizon
May 06, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/voip_fees_rise_new_regulation/
Security Professionals at Major Financial Institutions Shunning VoIP
May 06, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/security_financial_institutions_shunning_voip/
Net Neutrality Bill Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives
May 02, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/net_neutrality_bill_introduced/
VoIP Products Could Face Export Crackdown
Apr 27, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/voip_products_face_export_crackdown/
VoIP Used in New Phishing Scam
Apr 27, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/voip_used_in_phishing_scam/
Net Neutrality Provision Rejected
Apr 27, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/net_neutrality_provision_rejected/
Groups Join to Form Net Neutrality Coalition Taglined 'Save the Internet'
Apr 24, 2006 | Comments: 0
http://www.voiponder.com/posts/neutrality_coalition_save_the_internet/
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