VoIP has no wires. It isn’t connected to the Public Safety Answering Point System (911) and a local operator using switchboard technology can’t trace it. It is a completely different infrastructure than PSTN- the Public Switched Telephone Network. Yet, the FCC and the FBI would like to apply the same rules to VoIP as it does to every other telephone service.

What would Alexander Graham Bell say? The monopoly is over for the telephone industry- so I thought- yet it appears that there is still a monopoly on the infrastructure of what condones a telephone system.

VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol. It is not the same technology in any way, shape, or form as your local telephone service. Using your Internet High Speed connection and transmitting audio in the form of “packets” over your IP to another computer, VoIP user, or a standard telephone on the PSTN network conduct it.

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