Squawk Box October 23: The End of the Enhanced Service Exemption

It’s Regulatory Thursday, and Carl Ford leads a discussion of the the end of the enhanced service exemption. The FCC wants to revoke the ESP exemption for Interconnected VoIP traffic. Such a decision would not only have a financial impact on Interconnected VoIP provider. The FCC’s counsel has already told the court that this exclusive jurisdiction means that states can still apply things like state USF contributions and other things (regardless of whether it is an information service and regardless of whether there is federal jurisdiction). Revoking the ESP exemption is a huge problem.

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On the Calliflower Conference Call today: Carl Ford, Sergio Meinardi, Alec Saunders, Jim Kohlenberger, Claude Hayn, Dwight Irving, Dawn Mular, Karel Lukas, James Markus, Dan York, Mark Hewitt, James Body, Jonathan Taylor, Geoff Love, Ed Pimental, Anatoli Levine, Jeb Brilliant, Jeanette Fisher, Bill Volk, and Mohamed El-Mohri

Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.