An other sign of maturity - increasing regulation

The U.S. FCC requires VoIP service providers to [Goldman 2011]:

provide E911 service
pay universal service fees
enable wiretaps (under CALEA)
implement customer proprietary network information (CPNI) requirements

CPNI includes: numbers you call, when you called them, call duration, which services you use, and other information that appears on your phone bill.

See also Ubena John’s dissertation, “How to Regulate Information and Communications Technology? : A Jurisprudential Inquiry into Legislative and Regulatory Techniques” [John 2015]

Slide Notes

Alex Goldman, How The FCC Killed VoIP, Internet Statistics: Blog Archive, 2011.02.06, http://net-statistics.net/wordpress/2011/02/how-the-fcc-killed-voip/ Links to an external site.

[John 2015] Ubena John, ‘How to Regulate Information and Communications Technology? : A Jurisprudential Inquiry into Legislative and Regulatory Techniques’, Dissertation, Stockholm University, Department of Law, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015 [Online]. Available: Jure AB, ISBN: 978-91-7223-604-2. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-112674 Links to an external site.

Transcript

[slide547] Another sign, of course, of maturity is increasing regulation. So there are new rules starting to come into effect for VoIP. Ubena John's dissertation on how to regulate information communication technology, looks at the legal and regulatory techniques that are being applied. That's a Stockholm University thesis.