States Filling Regulatory Vacuum on VoIP

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Lack of clear federal regulation of VoIP has opened the door to additional state activity. nWisconsin's Public Service Commission will concentrate on what rules to apply to retail VoIP, nsaid Gary Evenson, the head of the telecom division. A hearing will be in March, he said. The ncommission has called VoIP increasingly prominent as a transmission protocol for voice nservice within the PSTN's conventional copper-based circuit switching technology and apart nfrom it. Maine's Public Utilities Commission is one of the first state regulators to tentatively nconclude that fixed VoIP services provided by Time Warner Cable and Comcast are telecom nservices under state law and so subject to regulation. The commission will issue a final nwritten notice very soon, a staffer said.