And the Fees for VoIP Providers Just Keep Mounting

AND THE FEES FOR VOIP PROVIDERS JUST KEEP MOUNTING
[SOURCE: Jeff Pulver 4/19]
[Commentary] First came fees to ensure that VoIP providers can connect to and be backward-compatible with non-IP-enabled local emergency response centers. Then came fees to support the Universal Service Fund, a fund to which VoIP providers are not eligible. Then comes the possible fees that VoIP providers might have to pay Verizon to license the patent for IP-PSTN translations and use of VoIP in WiFi hotspots.... and now, the FCC has released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking tentatively concluding that Interconnected VoIP providers should pay regulatory fees to the FCC in order to fund the FCC's enforcement and rulemaking activities. Nice to see that the FCC thinks the VoIP industry should be footing the bill for all the rules it has begun imposing on the VoIP providers.
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