Friday, October 10, 2003
Technology in court
Week in review: Security breach | CNET News.com:
"A federal judge permanently barred Minnesota from applying traditional telephone rules to Vonage, a pioneer in technology that lets consumers bypass the traditional phone network by making voice calls over a broadband connection.
The ruling for now frees Vonage to sell its Internet phone service in Minnesota without obtaining a telephone operator's license or paying fees to support 911 services. More importantly, the order is the first to address the authority of a state to oversee so-called voice over Internet Protocol providers and could thus affect efforts by other states to regulate the Net telephony providers. "
Sometimes we win one...
"A federal judge permanently barred Minnesota from applying traditional telephone rules to Vonage, a pioneer in technology that lets consumers bypass the traditional phone network by making voice calls over a broadband connection.
The ruling for now frees Vonage to sell its Internet phone service in Minnesota without obtaining a telephone operator's license or paying fees to support 911 services. More importantly, the order is the first to address the authority of a state to oversee so-called voice over Internet Protocol providers and could thus affect efforts by other states to regulate the Net telephony providers. "
Sometimes we win one...
Comments:
Post a Comment
#
