VoIP Regulatory Issues Dominate VON Buzz: Page 2 of 2

Levin, like others, said it may be a year or more before any real reform happens in the telecom arena, especially since such issues tend to get buried in a presedential election year. And Carl Wood, Commissioner at the California PUC, made some salient points about the need for regulation to protect services for lower-income users, a group that the industry can't be relied on to support without regulatory prodding. (We'll post an extended recap of Wood's and other comments later.)