October 19, 2004
Senator Sunuhu Calls for National VoIP Standards
Senator John Sunuhu (R-NH) addressed a VON conference and described what he hoped would become a major telecom bill in 2005.
According to eWeek:
Sununu said that next year he and others in a Senate committee, under the leadership of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), will be writing a broad telecom act to deal with broadband voice, universal service reform and some spectrum issues. Universal service fees are those subsidies paid to carriers in areas of low population density, to compensate them for lower subscriber revenue.
The "Regulatory Freedom Act" (S2281) that Sununu submitted to the Senate Commerce Committee in July passed the committee hearing "with one problematic amendment that gave some power back to state regulators to impose [universal] service fees at the state level," Sununu said.
Read more: Senator at VON Calls for National VOIP Standards
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