FCC Should Pause VoIP ICC Decreases, Rural Carriers Say
The FCC should act “in short order” to pause, effective June 30, 2014, reductions in intercarrier compensation rates for originating intrastate VoIP traffic, said the National Exchange Carrier Association, NTCA and WTA in a Dec. 16 letter to the commission,…
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posted in docket 10-90 Wednesday. The groups filed an emergency petition July 7, seeking relief from the reductions, and argued they had been approved under the assumption that Connect America Fund reforms would be in place to offset the loss for smaller carriers (see 1409030031). If granted, the pause should remain in place until the USF reforms are enacted, the letter said.