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Y'know what? VoIP can also be free from pesky regulation – US judges

Warm Braw

I think that's just the flip side of "but over the Internet" patents: if the service to the end user is essentially the same, the specific technology should not be an isssue. Regulation of the phone service survived the demise of Strowger exchanges and the introduction of fibre trunk connections; adding some packet-switching is a fairly trivial difference by comparison. If you're selling it as a phone service, it's a phone service.

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