22nd February 2002 at 16:17
#21252
Kevin C
Guest
I believe that it depends what service is actually being provided by the vendor. Some IXC carriers are carrying a percentage of their backbone voice traffic as VOIP and I believe it would fall under same regulations as TDM traffic. Some new CLECs and cable MSOs are offering local voice services and are regulated similarly to the ILECs for the service. But if you are talking about the free/cheap voice over the Internet stuff, I believe that is viewed as being equivalent to normal Internet data traffic.