The Voice on the Net Coalition opposed a motion by...
The Voice on the Net Coalition opposed a motion by the California Public Utilities Commission’s Consumer Protection and Safety Division to broaden a rulemaking to include consideration of whether VoIP providers should be regulated as telephone companies under state law…
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and subject to the commission’s consumer protection rules. The motion would improperly expand the proceeding beyond a study of state Universal Service Fund assessments without notice to all those that might be interested, the coalition said. It said the PUC shouldn’t deal with broad issues of regulatory treatment of VoIP and the obligations proposed for providers are pre-empted by federal law.