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November 19, 2003
Draft Agenda for FCC VoIP Forum - December 1, 2003
I just received my official invitation confirmation to be a part of the FCC VoIP Forum on December 1, 2003 in Washington, DC.
I'm looking forward to being a part of this historic event for the VoIP industry and joining the distinguished group of people who will be at the event.
Draft agenda for the event: (as of November 19, 2003)
FCC VoIP Forum Agenda: December 1, 2003
· Welcome & opening statements by Commissioners
· Regulatory Overview: Wireline Competition Bureau
· Panel I: The first panel will address technical and market
issues surrounding VoIP service. Panelists will be asked to describe
the technology and capabilities of VoIP, and how VoIP can be used to
offer end users lower cost, innovative services with capabilities
previously unavailable in voice communications. Panelists should
address how the FCC might distinguish among the numerous services
employing VoIP, and whether it could feasibly distinguish between
VoIP and other IP-enabled applications facilitating communication
(ranging from e-mail to instant messaging to videoconferencing to
interactive online gaming).
o Kevin Werbach, Founder, Supernova Group
o Charles H. Giancarlo, SVP and General Manager, Cisco
Systems, Inc.
o Jeff Pulver, President and CEO, Pulver.com
o John Hodulik, Managing Director, Communications Group,
UBS
o John Billock, COO, Time Warner Cable
o Tom Evslin, CEO, ITXC
o Representative of interactive game company (TBD)
· Panel II: The second panel will address public policy questions
raised by VoIP. Panelists will be asked to address what, if any,
regulatory obligations currently imposed upon traditional
circuit-switched voice service providers should be placed upon VoIP
providers and whether from either legal or technical perspectives such
obligations are feasible. Panelists may focus on traditional utility
regulatory issues such as non-discrimination and price regulation as well
as social policies such as access by persons with disabilities, universal
service, CALEA, and E911.
o Michael Gallagher, Acting Assistant Secretary, Department of
Commerce
o Commissioner Charles Davidson, Florida PSC
o Commissioner Carl Wood, California PUC
o James Crowe, CEO, Level3
o Jeffrey Citron, CEO, Vonage
o Dr. Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-principal Investigator,
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Project on Telecommunications
Access
· Closing remarks by Commissioners
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Comments
Looking forward to your report on that. My take on this is that the incumbents themselves would join the VoIP bandwagon down the road and hence the regulatory schemes would be one of support than hindrance. But as far as the VoIP on mobile is concerned, we still have technical issues... Roaming etc...Don't we?
Posted by: P@L at November 20, 2003 05:22 AM