| Currently, favorable regulatory treatment exempts IP telephony service providers from having to pay access charges (traditional circuit-switched long distance phone companies pay roughly 40% of their total revenue to local phone companies in the form of access charge payments). |
| This enables IP telephony service providers to undercut traditional carriers' rates. However, regulatory arbitrage opportunities are certain to disappear in the long term as legislators level the playing field. What happens next? What is the long-term promise of IP telephony? What are the implications of a shift in traffic from circuit-switched networks to packet-switched networks? What opportunities become available if the intelligence migrates from the center of a network (circuit-switched) towards the edge of the network (packet-switched)? |
| This program reviewed some of the issues confronting the industry, identified some of the major players and analyzed the opportunities for both equipment vendors and service providers. |
Panelists:
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John Friedman, President, Empire One Telecom |
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Suzanne Chu, Director of Marketing, Delta Three |
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Steve Sieck, Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Moderator: Karen Lynch, Editor in Chief, tele.com |
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| DATE: |
Wednesday evening, October 14, 1998 |
| PLACE: |
Chase Manhattan Bank, 270 Park Ave. (47th St.), NYC. 11th Floor |
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