From: Alan W. Williford [awilliford@mho.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:07 AM
To: voipforum
Subject: Materials Submitted to the VoIP Forum

Name:
 Alan W. Williford

E-mail:
 awilliford@mho.com

Organization:
 Private Citizen

Comments:
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This is yet another attempt to tax or regulate the internet. The main long distance providers are using the internet to transmit your phone calls, why can't private companies and individuals. If I were to subscribe to a VoIP telephone service, then I would expect to be under FCC regs. But if I use an application that allows me to talk over the internet dirctly to distant friends and realitives then I do not see the need for FCC Regs. All I'm doing is converting a voice to a bunch of ones and zeros and sending them across the interet like I do when I shop for christmas gifts or listen to music. If you are going to regulate anything, regualte the service providers not the users. But, leep the internet free of regulations so that we may exchange information freely, like al gore ment for us to...just kidding. The interet is a place to exchange information. The FCC should not regualte information that starts as voice energy or as electronic impulses from a keyboard in a chat room t! hat goes across the internet. at  least not today...
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