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Should

local governments have an inherent right to regulate and tax any

communication between two individuals that utilizes a human voice?

Should we discourage the use of broadband networks for fast, reliable

and cheap communications simply because a new technology doesn't fit

neatly into an existing regulatory slot? Should regulations

discriminate between two data files simply because one carries instant

messaging and the other someone's voice?

Until quite recently,

these questions were relegated to circles of academics, techies or

regulation junkies (yes, they do exist) speculating about how the

Internet might affect entrenched telephony providers. Today, these

issues have become practical, substantive questions that will make or

break the implementation of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) -- a

new technology that utilizes the packet-based method of Internet

communications and, in some instances, the architecture of the Internet

to bring new voice applications to consumers. VOIP generates

significant network efficiencies, reduces capital expenditures and

produces considerable cost savings. Moreover, the innovative features

and robust functions underscore that VOIP is not just a fancy phone

network and must not be treated as such.

The debate has just

begun, but the wagons are already being circled by those determined to

protect a regulatory scheme based on the copper wire telephone system

invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Our goal should be to allow this new

technology to evolve, which will dramatically reduce the cost of voice

communication to a level commensurate with that of any other bit of

data transmitted over the Internet. To ensure that a misguided approach

does not develop and to provide certainty to the marketplace, I will

introduce VOIP legislation in the coming weeks to establish several key

protections for this new technology.

-- First, my legislation

will treat VOIP as an information service.....[MORE]