Oh yeah I forgot. You can kiss those low rates good bye before too long.
VOIP is cutting into tax revenue from regular phone service so they will have to start charging taxes on VOIP soon or as the GAO report recommended, charge more for regular phone service. But if they raise regular phone taxes people will be driven to VOIP so they will end up charging taxes on that too. VOIP is probably going to end up as a small niche market, taxed to death by the governments.
Want to know where your phone taxes go?
-911 service (wtf, emergency calls used to be free. Dial 0 and scream.)
-cost of paying the government regulators who keep your rates low????
-cost of you to buy free phone service for poor people. ?I never got free phone service when I was out of work for 3 years?