2004-11-10

VoIP: States' Rights vs. Interstate Commerce Clause

The Washington Post concisely sumarizes the issue of VoIP regulation in this article by Yuki Noguchi, covering the recent FCC ruling.

I think this boils down to an issue I have run up against numerous times over the last decade when trying to do business in more than one state. Frequently the increased bureacracy or conflicting laws have made it difficult, excessively expensive or impossible to provide service or products to customers in another state.

I hope I can continue this thought process later. Perhaps I will move this disucssion over to Truck & Barter. Kevin has been generous enough to add me to the Masthead and I will be attempting to fit in with their excellent economic analysis in some future posts.

What are your thoughts on doing interstate business?

1 comment:

Bryan said...

After this post I notice that my Google ads began displaying advertisements for Immigration and Visa lawyers. Interesting.