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Powell Opposes Internet Phone Regulation

So here I was thinking about how unusual it was that FCC chairman Michael Powell Opposes Internet Phone Regulation. After all, this is the same agency that thinks it's just fine for media conglomerates to own even more of the nation's collective mind than they already do, so why should he protect small Internet phone companies over the likes of AT&T and Comcast? Simple. He doesn't. Turns out the majors have finally figured out that they can escape all the taxes they pay on their regular networks by running their calls over the Internet instead.