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November 14, 2005

Is the White House trying to send a signal to FCC Chairman Martin on VoIP?

A week ago today, there were two critical yet contradictory statements impacting the future of VoIP -- one from the President's top telecom advisor, and one from the head of the FCC. Michael Gallagher, head of NTIA - the agency that is the President's voice in speaking to the FCC - delivered an inspired presentation on promoting broadband and the importance of advanced technologies for rural America.

He concluded by outlining the President's vision:

* "The President has a vision for making advanced technologies available to all Americans - by creating the economic and regulatory environment to enhance competition and promote innovation."

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* "The President's goal will ensure that all Americans have the personal and economic benefits of high-speed Internet applications and services."

But on the same day, the FCC Chairman took a starkly different approach to these same technologies. He released a public notice which appears at odds with the Presidents stated goals of the same day. Rather than making advanced technologies available to "all Americans," the FCC's Public Notice would for the first time limit competition and specifically ensure that all Americans cannot take advantage of high-speed Internet technologies. The FCC's public notice would prevent an estimated 98 million mostly rural Americans from taking advantage of VoIP while E911 is being deployed. Gallagher says the President's goal will "ensure all Americans have the personal and economic benefits of high-speed Internet applications and services." I read that to mean that all Americans should have access to VoIP - and I agree.

So I'm scratching my head, is the FCC Chairman out of step with the President's goals? Or is Gallagher out of step with the FCC Chairman? I don't know. But I find it interesting that after the FCC's unusual public notice to specifically prevent the marketing of advanced broadband applications to millions of Americans that the White House quickly nominated Deborah Tate as a new FCC commissioner. She has a specific track record focused on enabling Americans to take advantage of VoIP. Are they trying to bring some balance to the FCC decision-making on VoIP? She, for example, had previously told the FCC about the promise of VoIP, saying "There is no doubt that IP-enabled services hold great promise for bringing competitive choice to consumers. I suggest that we greet the transformative IP technology with an equally transformative approach to regulatory environment for communications."

Personally, I think the President gets it on VoIP. During the campaign last year he said this: "I support innovative communications technologies like Voice Over Internet Protocal (VoIP), and believe they will lead to more communications choices for consumers. VoIP will benefit from the deployment of broadband, and that is one of the reasons I have set an aggressive goal of having affordable broadband access available to all Americans by 2007. We must work toward creating regulatory certainty, which provides companies with the incentive to invest in new technologies and services. Internet telephony by its nature relies on technology that does not distinguish geographic borders. This requires us to take a hard look at the appropriate role of Federal and state regulators with respect to a technology that may be more similar to email than to regular telephony, at least in the way the signal is transmitted." (From CompTIA's October 2004 questionnaire on tech policy 10/29/2004)

Lets just hope that the pro-VoIP views of Bush, Gallagher, and Tate prevail over the "turn it off" views of Martin.

Tags: voip, fcc, e911, policy

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November 14, 2005

Is the White House trying to send a signal to FCC Chairman Martin on VoIP?

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