VON Coalition Europe - Leading Providers of Voice Solutions over the Internet Warn Against Threat to Internet Innovation Stemming From European Parliament Vote

Today, the European Parliament voted on the Telecoms Package, including the Universal Service Directive, one of the cornerstones in the Regulation of the Electronic Communications Sector. Though some improvements were fabricated by the Parliament to the angle put advanced by the Commission, a axiological change in the analogue of the ambit of this Directive would accept extensive after-effects for a aggregation of Internet casework and applications, by assimilating them to acceptable telephony.

STATEMENT:
Caroline De Cock, Executive Director of the VON Coalition Europe, stated: “Consumers in Europe and above the apple accept been adequate the allowances of Voice on the Net applications alignment from chatting to video conferencing, generally at no or little cost. This was fabricated accessible by the actuality that action makers consistently acclimatized hat these avant-garde articles were not replacements to acceptable telephony casework and should appropriately not be abounding by the aforementioned set of obligations.

Dialing 112 or the civic agnate can be the a lot of important alarm that a being anytime makes. There is a crisis in cogent consumers that all Voice on the Net applications are now answerable to accommodate acceptance to emergency casework and that consumers can depend on these casework for emergency calling if their believability cannot be affirmed because they depend on an basal arrangement that may not be managed by the Internet articulation provider. To that one have to add the actuality that localizing an emergency alarm over the Internet is not something that can be done technically at this stage, abnormally if humans are application a the Internet on the move, for archetype through a Wifi hotspot”.

VON acerb believes that, with the appropriate accessible policies, Internet-enabled articulation communications, such as VoIP, can access competition, accommodate a belvedere for innovation, drive broadband deployment, accredit bread-and-butter advance and drive prices down.

The VON Coalition Europe accordingly urges the European decision-makers to alter their attitude and accept a businesslike access that focuses on announcement added chat amid their industry and emergency account providers, takes into anniversary the banned of what technology can action and puts the focus on allegorical European consumers in adjustment to actualize astute expectations. Centering a light-touch access about advice accustomed to end-users about the capabilities of a account or appliance that permits articulation communications seems the a lot of alive way advanced as it conspicuously allows to analyze amid those casework application articulation over IP that are replacements of home or business blast casework and those that are not.

ABOUT the VON Coalition Europe

The Voice on the Net (VON) Coalition Europe was launched in December 2007 by seven arch Internet communications and technology companies, on the acid bend – iBasis, Intel, Google, Microsoft, Rebtel, Skype and Voxbone – to actualize an accurate articulation for the Internet-enabled communications industry.

The VON Coalition Europe conspicuously focuses on educating and allegorical policymakers in the European Union in adjustment to advance amenable government behavior that accredit addition and the abounding allowances that Internet articulation innovations can deliver.

Press Contact:

Caroline De Cock
Executive Director
VON Coalition Europe
Kreupelstraat 33, 1703 Dilbeek (Brussels), Belgium

T : +32 (0)474 840515
@ : cdc@voneurope.eu
www.voneurope.eu