Vermont PUC Grants Comcast Appeal of VoIP Proceeding
The Vermont Public Utility Commission granted Comcast's motion to reconsider its 2018 ruling that interconnected VoIP is a telecom service under federal law and won't proceed to phase two of the proceeding, the PUC said in a modified order Monday…
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in docket 7316 (see 1803070060). "Although we are not persuaded that the analysis of FCC precedent in our previous order was in error, we conclude that a determination that VoIP services are telecommunications services under federal law would conflict with the FCC policy of targeted VoIP regulation," the order said. An attorney for Comcast didn't respond to a request for comment. “We are extremely pleased that the Vermont PUC has paused its decision to consider new regulations for VoIP providers, recognizing that a national regulatory framework is consistent with FCC policy,” said Glenn Richards, counsel to the Voice on the Net Coalition, which participated as an amicus in the proceeding.