VoIP has no wires. It isn’t connected to the Public Safety Answering Point System (911) and a local operator using switchboard technology can’t trace it. It is a completely different infrastructure than PSTN- the Public Switched Telephone Network. Yet, the FCC and the FBI would like to apply the same rules to VoIP as it does to every other telephone service. (more…)

VoIP quality and reliability problems have largely been overcome, but security remains a real issue. As the Internet has shown, a flexible, open, digital communications platform attracts parasites. (more…)