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July 27, 2004
VoIP taxes
VoIP taxes: Declan McCullagh at CNET discusses what proposed US legislation might do to various multi-way voice technologies. "Thanks to a bizarre move by Congress last week, p2pCommunity and hundreds of similar projects could end up paying taxes to state governments to prop up the antediluvian scheme of running copper wires to rural households for analog phone service. Existing law imposes those taxes on cellular and landline customers to subsidize rural customers, and state officials are hungrily eyeing the Internet as a rich additional source of untapped revenue... By that logic, Congress should have forced Henry Ford to pay for horse troughs." I have no idea whether Breeze meetings fall into this legislation's path... most of the projects I see are one-way audio, but it's hard to read accurately through such documents.
Posted by John Dowdell at July 27, 2004 2:47 PM