VoIP-News spoke to several major players in the peer-to-peer VoIP market about the future of “free” telephony and what needs these voice applications seek to fulfill. What effect will legislation seeking to regulate VoIP have upon users and the innovation of IP telephony? From the responses of industry insiders, analysts and the companies themselves, one can infer that the result would not be positive for growth and innovation.

Paul Askin, General Counsel for Pulver Media comments: “We have the potential to revolutionize the ways in which we communicate and offer even better capabilities to advance the social good, if the emerging industry is not shackled by legacy, one-size-fits-all regulations that might work well for traditional telephony providers but only serve to stifle the promise of Internet communications.” [[editor's note – Pulver Media is actively supporting one side of the regulatory debate currently underway in the House and the Senate for more on regulatory issues 

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