[Alberta's Child]

A tariff of 10 cents per minute on satellite serviced voice calls would immediately level the playing field.

Do you really believe that any government would be capable of actually collecting such a tariff?

It would probably also offset any current subsidy of telecommunications that is coming from the U.S. taxpayer.

As if the U.S. is the only country in the world that has launched telecommunications satellites into orbit . . .

[Myrddin]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is the agency that regulates wireline, wireless and satellite communications. They certainly have the ability to regulate any and all telcom traffic that enters or leaves the United States.

I'm sure other countries have launched satellites. It doesn't really matter. The key technology that permits outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries is cheap telecom. The U.S. government can regulate and tariff those communications paths as it sees fit. A tariff on the cheap telecom path takes all the cost advantage out of the cheap foreign labor.