[51541] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jump Start ecash With IPhone
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Wed Mar 6 17:24:06 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 16:46:04 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
At 11:37 AM 3/6/96 -0800, Jim McCoy wrote:
> 2- The phone companies (actually ACTA, the telco lobby) petitioned
> the FCC on Monday to regulate the Internet phone software
> companies.
>
>IP phone systems themselves may need to move underground just to
>escape regulation. OTOH, there is nothing to prevent people from
>building their own systems once some free software is out there...
That would be a super neat trick since the LD business is currently
deregulated (and in fact was never a government monopoly) and the local loop
is in the process of deregulation, and Vocaltec is in some senses an Israeli
company anyway and need not have a presence in New Jersey if it doesn't want do.
DCF
