FCC Slaps Fine on ISP for VOIP Block

Who do you call when your lame-o ISP blocks your VOIP service?

Call the FCC, baby!

The FCC doesn't just hassle Howard Stern. They don't just obsess over Janet Jackson's infamous Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction." Oh no ... sometimes they actually do something actually worth writing about. The commission stepped up to the plate today and whacked a misguided ISP -- Mebane, NC-based Madison River Communications -- for blocking the VOIP calls of its Internet subscribers.

Clueless about VOIP, Madison River describes themselves as: "a rapidly growing national communications CLEC provider offering innovative data, voice and colocation services to large and small corporations and value-added resellers across the United States." Innovative, eh? I think some of their VOIP savvy subscribers would use slightly different, yet unprintable, adjectives to describe their services.

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