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October 3, 2006
GentekI will be appearing at the Gentek Vendor Fair tomorrow (Wednesday), delivering a talk about Regulating the Internet: Can we / should we? The event brings together manufacturers and resellers from various segments of the IT and telecommunication industries.

The Gentek Vendor Fair 2006 will take place on Wednesday October 4th, 2006 between 10:00 am – 4:30 pm at the Renaissance Park Banquet Hall, located at 2800 Highway 7 West in Concord, Ontario (Highway 7 & Creditstone intersection, east of Highway 400).

The Vendor Fair will examine new technologies and business models available to ISPs, VARs, resellers and IT consultants who are involved in providing broadband, network security and VoIP products and solutions. It will also be an opportunity for ISPs, ITSPs, VARs and IT consultants to meet with representatives from leading vendors in these key market segments.

Attendance is free, but you need to pre-register here. I will be speaking at about 1 pm.

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How to regulate VoIP

May 6, 2006

For more than 3 years, in our discussions around the world, the first question that used to be raised was ‘can you regulate VoIP’? After all, internet technology was considered to be beyond the power of regulators.

After we assured people that there were ways to detect and impose regulation on VoIP, our question back was ‘why would you want to regulate VoIP’? Even when offered by an incumbent, what characteristics are there to justify regulating Voice over IP?

More than a year ago, we offered a solution to the regulatory challenge of how to deal with VoIP. That paper is just as relevant today as it was last year. In the report, we suggest that dial tone service is an application that can be dissociated from the access facilities.

The paper suggests that the key factor for the regulator to examine is whether the access service is competitive or a bottleneck, regulated service. Economic (price) regulation is only required if the customer delivered service combines a regulated access service with the voice application. Using this standard, wireless services and VoIP would be forborne while traditional voice services would attract price regulation until access facilities are found to be competitive.

We wrote the paper as a solution for the CRTC to consider last year. Given the Cabinet direction to revisit the CRTC’s original VoIP Decision, we think our paper is worth looking at again.

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