[IP] Regulators Look For Another Way
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 15, 2004 1:09:07 PM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Regulators Look For Another Way
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Regulators Look For Another Way
By Mark Rockwell
September 14, 2004
<http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?
layout=newsat2direct&starting=2&pubdate=09/14/04>
WASHINGTON -- A new group of state regulators and telecommunications
companies, including a heavy contingent of wireless companies, is
banding together to address how new telecom regulation should be
formed.
The group, called the Federation For Economical Rational Utility Policy
(FERUP), convened its first annual D.C. summit this morning, pulling
heavyweight speakers such as FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein; FCC
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Chief John Muleta; Dorothy Attwood,
vice president of SBC; Thomas Sugrue, T-Mobile USA's vice president of
government affairs, and others. FCC Chairman Michael Powell, BellSouth
Chairman Duane Ackerman, Cingular Chairman and CEO Stan Sigman and CTIA
President and CEO Steve Largent are on this afternoon's speakers'
agenda.
All are lending their perspective to what they see as an alternative
movement to come to terms with the rapidly changing cross-over
competition and convergence developing among wireless, wireline, cable
and IP-based services. FERUP was formed, according to Florida Public
Service Commissioner Charles Davidson, to counter some state public
service commissions and commissioners who want more state-driven
regulation. A more national framework for telecom regulation is needed,
he said, and the organization hopes to raise issues before Congress
starts to re-configure the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
FERUP was formed only months ago, and the conference was pulled
together in a few weeks in anticipation of the coming review the new
Congress is expected to give the Telecom Act.
Wireless will play a vital role in the possible reformation of the act
as VoIP and other services that make media, traditional services and
regulation obsolete. VoIP, said Jeffrey Pulver, panel participant and
chief executive of Pulver.com, will drastically warp current regulatory
models. Wi-Fi and WiMAX threaten the same, he said.
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