To be or Not!!

VoIP: To regulate or not to regulate, that is the question?









Travis Tan
Marcus Ison
Stephen Stafford
Marcio Cardosa

November 24, 2003





Outline


I. Introduction
II. Background on Regulation
III. The Argument Against Regulation
IV. The Argument For Regulation
V. Appendix: Sources


I. Introduction

Voice over IP (VoIP) is the delivery of voice data using the Internet Protocol (IP). It differs from traditional telephone circuit switching technology in that it delivers voice data as discrete digital packets. The primary advantage to using this technology is that VoIP avoids the toll charges associated with circuit switching by transmitting data via IP. VoIP will have minimal impact on users because can communicate using VoIP as simply as with the public switched telephone network (PSTN). This is great for the consumer because there is no learning curve for the newly implemented technology. Also, VoIP kills many ...