] The rush to lump VOIP in with phone services obscures the ] larger problem: The 100-year-old regulatory structure for ] telephones is no longer adequate for today's advanced ] telecom services. These rules were written in a time when ] each technology delivered one type of service: Voice ] traveled over copper wires. Broadcast radio and TV ] signals flew through the air. Multichannel video ] journeyed across a coaxial cable. |