Regulatory Concerns Abound in Switch from PSTN to VoIP - Internet Telephony

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Featured Articles » Why Business VoIP Providers Should Be Security Conscious » Make Way for the Future of VoIP » Using VoIP Providers to Build B2B/B2C Relationships » How VoIP Call Recording Could Help Your Social Interactions   Sponsored By: REVE Systems REVE Systems provides its softswitch 'iTel Switch Plus' on a hosted basis with a monthly payment option. Hosted offerings are useful for small and medium size IP telephony platform providers and are equally beneficial for carrier grade VoIP service providers who don't want to take the hassle of maintaining and monitoring the softswitch.   Top Stories » VoIP & SIP Trunking Found More Than a Match for Voice Services » Business VoIP to Grow to $35B by 2018 » VoIP Innovations Named Best Wholesale Provider » RingCentral VoIP Service Now Includes Multi-Point HD Video   From The Expert Corner May 27, 2014 Regulatory Concerns Abound in Switch from PSTN to VoIP  By Casey Houser, Contributing Writer The telephony market is witnessing a switch from the old voice standard, PSTN, to the future as driven by the Internet, VoIP. The complications that come with making the switch from one to the other are great in number and range from codec support to regulatory control to 911 mapping. The folks over at Network World have tackled the various issues in an ongoing series of blog posts dedicated to the topic. Recently, the tech news organization said there may be more questions than answers at this point. Network World said that it spoke previously with Greg Rogers, the deputy general council at Bandwidth, a wholesale telecom service provider. Rogers mentioned that the FCC is struggling to come up with solutions for the regulation of VoIP services. When Vonage  first came into being, the FCC debated on whether or not it and other similar telephony providers should be required to support E-911. This is a standard that, through the debate, came to be required of such IP-PBX  callers, and now the Commission is tackling the issue of how such callers should handle text messages. Read More Read more about Cable, Satellite, Information Technology   Featured Video Sprint's Role in The M2M Ecosystem   TMCnet Free Premium Content » Introduction to VoIP Fraud » VoIP Security: More Than Just IT Risk » Effectively Positioning Your Business for Mobile Customer Care    Latest Blogs » OTT is / is not a threat to interconnect carriers   Featured Channels » Internet Telephony - Features » IP Communications » Call Center Services - Call Center Services   Webinars Download One of Our Webinars Today to learn about new opportunities to enhance your business. http://www.tmcnet.com/webinar/   Become a TMCnet Columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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