What is VoIP? CPUC Comments Try to Answer.

Industry and consumer groups tried to explain VoIP and its permutations to FCC Administrative Law Judge Camille Watts-Zagha in comments filed Thursday at the California Public Utilities in R.22-08-008. The ALJ asked to find a “common vocabulary” in the rulemaking about possible changes to licensing requirements and other obligations for internet-based voice (see 2302160047). The CPUC received various takes on VoIP from parties including AT&T, California Broadband & Video Association, Cloud Communications Alliance, Comcast, Consolidated Communications, Charter Communications, Cox, Frontier Communications, Sangoma, the Voice on the Net Coalition, a group of small RLECs and two consumer advocates.