The CRTC VoIP hearings continued today, the final day of the three-day public consultation period that will determine the regulator's stance of VoIP.  Yesterday, Jeff Pulver posted his own submission to the CRTC in his blog.  Not surprisingly, Jeff pitched an FCC-like stance, much like the same position that I have been advocating here at TF.  But I liked the way he so candidly said:

Time will tell whether or not the CRTC will take a page out of the FCC book and adopt a minimum-regulation position.  Actually, it is not just the FCC that took that route; in fact, there are other countries such as the UK, Austria and Singapore that have also reached the same conclusion.  As Richard Stastny points out in his blog, it seems that regulators that have already dealt for some time with issues such as ENUM are apparently more forward-thinking towards VoIP (Ed. note: Richard has been one of the key players in Austria's ENUM initiative and has spread the ENUM gospel in a few VON conferences).

Once the hearings are completed, the commission will have to ponder upon a lot of issues, before making its final decision, which is expected to happen in the first half of next year.

Update: Transcripts should be available sometime soon (now that the hearings are over) - check the main CRTC VoIP hearings page.