FCC says rural telcos must embrace VoIP

We admittedly missed the beginning of this story, but we're pleased to be in on what is certainly the end of it. The FCC ruled this week that telcos are required to terminate VoIP calls. This wouldn't seem to be much of an issue, except that regulators in Nebraska and South Carolina had said the opposite. Rural carriers in that state had argued that because the wholesale telecom providers that Time Warner Cable buys bandwidth from don't provide direct service to consumers, that Time Warner is somehow not a "real" telco. The FCC disagreed--and the FCC's ruling trumps the states'.

For more about the FCC ruling:
- read this from PC World

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