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For a variety of its own reasons not applicable to the Committee, the agency may implement all/most of the recommendations,
but few times recommendations are not implemented.
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Agency has adopted and advocated frequently for VOIP recommendations 1, 2, 3 & 4 below (for more information, see the committee's
VOIP Report). 1. Decision-making processes must be transparent. Regulation should foster deployment, capital investment, and
competition. Regulatory decisions should be made in a timely fashion and incorporate flexibility, and should encourage innovation
and competition. 2. Avoid imposing legacy regulations on VoIP and IP networks, including today's international telecommunications
settlement regime. A light regulatory approach is appropriate, especially where competition takes root. Greater regulation
is appropriate to protect users and competitive opportunity where competition is not taking place, but should be reduced as
competition is established. As in all markets, competition law should also remain available to guard against anti-competitive
behavior.3. Work to promote achievement of social policy objectives such as law enforcement, emergency services and other
national interests—but drive these objectives in an evolutionary manner, relying whenever possible on industry-developed standards,
moving toward achievement of these goals consistent with the capabilities of the technology without stifling the service in
the meanwhile. 4. Users should be able on a non-discriminatory basis to run applications of their choice and to attach any
devices that they may choose on underlying networks—particularly broadband connections since those are typically necessary
for VoIP to work today—consistent with the user’s service plan, unless there would be harm to the network, or theft of service
would be enabled.
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