Re: VCC cost models .... (was Re: Limits on SVCCs)

["Eric W. Gray" <[e-mail]>]

Pete,

You wrote:
> 
> Eric,
> 
> > In fact, the Telcos are already moving to change this.  The reason that the
> > internet rate is cheaper is that the cost for "data" transmission is more
> > stringently regulated by the government.  The Telcos are arguing that the new
> > use of the internet to transmit conventional audio and voice as "data" is
> > justification for lifting this regulation.
> 
> I thought it was the other way around, that voice was heavily controlled and
> data wasn't.  I remember the Telco argument being that applications like
> Internet Phone were effectively bypassing the regulations the FCC
> imposed on the telco's, and that this was infair.  I don't remember whether
> they want Iphone and similar apps to be regulated or banned, or want
> regulatory releif from the FCC.  Maybe some one else knows the real details
> and the current state of this.
>

Same argument that I heard; interesting that you get so different a feel for
the sense of their argument.  Do you imagine that the Telcos are arguing that
the government should let them lower the rates they charge for voice?  I had
thought that they were rather arguing to be allowed to charge more for data...

> 
>  --- pete
> 
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Eric