Speaking at a recent consumer electronics show, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Michael Powell warned against the over-regulation of new technologies such as voice over internet protocol, or VoIP.
"You can create a very hostile regulatory environment for voice-over IP providers in the United States," he observed.
The FCC chief went on to explain that state and other regulators may take the position that VoIP should be regulated in the same way as other methods of communication, arguing that: "It's just telephony. It looks like a duck; it quacks like a duck, regulate it like a duck."
In 2003, the state of Minnesota attempted to impose telephone regulations on VoIP provider, Vonage. However, the state authority's claim was rejected in October, when a federal judge ruled that the firm was providing information rather then a communication service.
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