Phone companies VS Voip

Posts: 22 · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:12 am Post subject: Phone companies VS Voip

Interesting article in todays Chicago Tribune business section about how some regulatory boards in Illinois want it treating like a regular land line system and taxed the same. Article goes on to say that SBC wants to charge each call from a Voip that enters its system to be billed like a regular long distance call. Just thought some of you may be interested in reading article. Vonage is the best thing to happen to consumers in a long time and now everyone (even politicians) want their share of profits.

Posts: 71 · Full Forum Member Joined: Mar 09, 2004 Posts: 71

Tell them to go to hell!!! The Way I see it, we shouldn't have to pay a penny, cause at one time it used to be free.

Posts: 104 · Vonage Forum Senior Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: 104

Voip and Vonage type services are clearly disruptive to the tax n' spend attributes that have plagued telecom services.

It's been estimated though that 5-15% of most local government budgets are in fact from telecom taxes.

I have completed some research into understanding what's on your telephone bill and who gets the money. It's fairly lengthy but I hope interesting to you. Here's the link:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ckoehncke1/kranky/9.html