Voip In America Research Paper
The Regulation of VoIP in the United States of America
By
Francis Nsofwa Mubanga
Keller Graduate School of Management
DeVry University
Professor Dwight T. Elliott, MS. JD.
TM 584
June 09th, 2012
Abstract
The objectives of this study are to: (1) define VoIP, its typology, and switching characteristics; (2) talk about U.S.A VoIP law and policy; (3) present regulation of VoIP; and (4) conclusion. In the U.S.A, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the government department in charge of rulemaking pertaining to many VoIP-related issues such as jurisdiction, regulatory criteria and degree of different rules for different classes of carriers or companies, rate of substitution, recent innovations, disability access, …show more content…
These charges have to date overcompensated LECs for those costs and in that way forced IXCs to contribute to LEC Universal Service Fund. Access charges are per-minute fees paid by long-distance and cellular companies to local telephone companies for the right to originate and terminate phone calls on the local networks (Benjamin, Lichtman, Shelanski & Weiser, 2006). These charges are applicable to both incoming and outgoing calls. With this local telephone companies have argued that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should also pay access charges because their customers utilize the local telephone lines. This utilization of the lines reduces the amount of time that the lines are available for telephone calls or use. These developments made the telephone companies to become threatened because they think that VoIP providers will begin to replace their service and that additional revenues will be lost. LECs companies still stood to their grounds of saying that VoIP is a telecommunications service, not an information service, and should be mandated to pay access
By
Francis Nsofwa Mubanga
Keller Graduate School of Management
DeVry University
Professor Dwight T. Elliott, MS. JD.
TM 584
June 09th, 2012
Abstract
The objectives of this study are to: (1) define VoIP, its typology, and switching characteristics; (2) talk about U.S.A VoIP law and policy; (3) present regulation of VoIP; and (4) conclusion. In the U.S.A, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the government department in charge of rulemaking pertaining to many VoIP-related issues such as jurisdiction, regulatory criteria and degree of different rules for different classes of carriers or companies, rate of substitution, recent innovations, disability access, …show more content…
These charges have to date overcompensated LECs for those costs and in that way forced IXCs to contribute to LEC Universal Service Fund. Access charges are per-minute fees paid by long-distance and cellular companies to local telephone companies for the right to originate and terminate phone calls on the local networks (Benjamin, Lichtman, Shelanski & Weiser, 2006). These charges are applicable to both incoming and outgoing calls. With this local telephone companies have argued that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should also pay access charges because their customers utilize the local telephone lines. This utilization of the lines reduces the amount of time that the lines are available for telephone calls or use. These developments made the telephone companies to become threatened because they think that VoIP providers will begin to replace their service and that additional revenues will be lost. LECs companies still stood to their grounds of saying that VoIP is a telecommunications service, not an information service, and should be mandated to pay access