Executive Warns Not to Throw Out Voice Service Along With Old Rules

摘要

The public switched telephone network (PSTN) may be dwindling, but thenintercarrier-compensation system for it has guaranteed high-quality voice service, and supportnof the broadband transition should be careful not to destroy service for the sake of antechnology revolution, said CEO David Erickson of Free Conference Call. “We shouldn’t gonout of our way to regulate out the old system just because some people ... think it’s a dyingnbusiness,” Erickson said in a conference call debate over an overhaul of the Universal ServicenFund and intercarrier compensation system proposed by the FCC.