Editing Voice over IP (section)

===European Union===
In the [[European Union]], the treatment of VoIP service providers is a decision for each national telecommunications regulator, which must use competition law to define relevant national markets and then determine whether any service provider on those national markets has "significant market power" (and so should be subject to certain obligations). A general distinction is usually made between VoIP services that function over managed networks (via broadband connections) and VoIP services that function over unmanaged networks (essentially, the Internet).{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

The relevant EU Directive is not clearly drafted concerning obligations that can exist independently of market power (e.g., the obligation to offer access to emergency calls), and it is impossible to say definitively whether VoIP service providers of either type are bound by them.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Voice over IP |url=http://www.123seminarsonly.com/Seminar-Reports/037/50930740-Voice-over-IP.doc}}</ref>