The San Jose Mercurey News offers up an editorial opinion on the recent FCC ruling to keep VoIP free of state regulation. I think the key here is they zoomed in on the desire of the FCC to keep VoIP free of being a monopoly and in encouraging the rapid development of the technology and its application.
By not deciding now on things like taxes, the FCC is saying, "let it grow" and by saying keep the states hands off they are saying, "we’ve learned from what the states did with DSL and ISDN." In those issues the local RBOC’s had a hand in keeping the levels low until they were ready. That paved the way for the MSO’s in cable to take a lead in broadband.
Here the FCC say’s go and grow.