Daily News 2005/01/10

3Com providing brand new IP terminal products

　　With the popularization of NBX IP telephone system on the global market, 3COM company announced recently that it would provide a series of brand new NBX IP telephone terminals to enrich the terminal products line and meet the requirements of the users.

　　3Com company is now marketing a brand-new IP terminal products while making efforts to improve the NBX main system to make sure that the NBX system can meet the requirements of various kinds of users form the high end to the low end, and from the wired to the wireless.

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Dispute over VoIP issues in America

　　The Public Facility Management Committee of Minnesota State of U.S. says recently that it will deny the decisions made by Federal Communications Commission (FCC), that is, it will prohibit the VoIP service provider from providing local emergency alarm telephone services, and will appeal to the Federal Circuit.

　　Minnesota is the second state who requires to prohibit IP telephone service. In fact there has been quite a dispute over how to manage the VoIP services, a promising business in the telecom industry. In Dec. of last year, the Public Facility Management Committee of California State also made a similar decision and has appealed to the Federal Circuit.
It is obvious that IP telephone service is seizing market shares from traditional telephone service providers, which troubles the American government much due to the fact that the shrunk market share of traditional in-state telephone service will lead to decreased tax revenue, which will surely affect the development of telecom services in the rural areas.

　　The dispute between the IP telephone service providers, represented by Voynich, and traditional telephone service provider, represented by Bell, over how to manage the IP telephone market, has been lasted for over a year. The former hopes that the government makes less restriction on the development of IP telephone services, while the latter moves in the opposite direction.

　　In Nov. of last year, FCC made a decision in favor of Voynich, allowing IP telephone services to enter into the in-state market. However, the governments of these states haven't made any concessions yet, and in addition to California and Minnesota, New York also made the prohibition.
It will take some time for the court to make any decision, but according to the analysts in the industry, IP telephone services will take the place of traditional telephone services sooner or later. By 2008 there will be 18 millions of IP subscribers in America, and the exit of traditional in-state telephone service is just a matter of time.