The FCC has spanked an ISP for blocking VOIP calls so that the ISP’s subscribers were SOL. Addressing the SNAFU, the FCC indicated that an ISP blocking its users from accessing VOIP services is FUBAR. (How’s that for MAU? [Maximum Acronym Usage])

Seriously, the decision this week by the FCC involving North Carolina ISP Madison River Communication, and their blocking of VOIP services to their users, lead to a nolo contendre plea by Madison River, along with a $15,000 file. Nolo contendre, which essentially means “no contest”, is considered to be a plea of neither “guilty” or “not guilty”, and in one of Aunty’s favourite definitions, is defined as meaning “I didn’t do it, and I’ll never do it again.”

Madison River, which operates four telephone companies… [Continued…]