The decision was warmly received by the VoIPindustry, where growth has been haunted by the specter of regulation, which threatened to raise the price of calls and reduce the profitability of service providers.
"The chairman has done the voice over IP industry wonders, " says Jeff Pulver, chief executive of Free World Dialup , a VoIP service provider which in February was the subject of one of Powell's salutary FCC rulings.