InternetNews.com reflects on the state of VoIP in the Nation’s capital.
My view:
1) The FCC is being marginalized by the states whose representatives and senators are hearing from big business (i.e. the RBOCs) who stand to lose billions.
2) The advances made via the Internet the last 11 years occured due to the lack of taxation and free flowing investment and return on new ideas and ways to do things that previously were done differently.
3)Telephony taxes affect everyone with a phone, yet the people are not being heard only big business, and in reality, only a very few (Verizon, SBC, Bell South, I’m not really sure where Qwest stands), plus a grouping of local telcos.
Given VON is in Boston this year I think it would be fitting to dump a bunch of rotary dial phones into Boston Harbor. Unfortunately that would get me fined or arrested for littering so we would to do something as symbolic to possibly make the point. Taxation without representation. The elected officials are not asking what the people want, they are hearing the views of what big business wants.