here's an interesting article from businessweek online. sammy ================================= NEWS ANALYSIS By Alex Salkever
These Phone Calls Aren't Phone Calls The FCC's Feb. 12 ruling that computer-to-computer calls are exempt from telecom regs is the first blow in a new battle for the Bells <http://images.businessweek.com/common_images/bw_1x1.gif> If a phone call is sent digitally over the Internet, is it still a phone call? Or is it a voice e-mail? That question has loomed over the telecom sector for more than a year, as the industry awaited a ruling from the Federal Communications Commission. At issue: new technologies that allow cheap, easy phone calls over existing broadband Net connections. On Feb. 12, the FCC replied with an initial answer that should make the Baby Bells very nervous -- a voice call delivered digitally over the public Internet is the same as an e-mail, as far as the regulators are concerned.
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