NODE 27ae9dc7Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:51:09 +0800
At 11:37 AM 3/6/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote:
> 2- The phone companies (actually ACTA, the telco lobby) petitioned
> the FCC on Monday to regulate the Internet phone software
> companies.
>
>IP phone systems themselves may need to move underground just to
>escape regulation. OTOH, there is nothing to prevent people from
>building their own systems once some free software is out there...
That would be a super neat trick since the LD business is currently
deregulated (and in fact was never a government monopoly) and the local loop
is in the process of deregulation, and Vocaltec is in some senses an Israeli
company anyway and need not have a presence in New Jersey if it doesn't want do.
DCF