FCC Draft on Circulation Would Address Level 3-AT&T Dispute
An FCC draft enforcement item on a Level 3-AT&T dispute was shared with commissioners Thursday, according to the agency's circulation list updated Friday. An agency spokesman didn't comment Monday. Level 3 filed a complaint last year alleging AT&T is trying…
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"to delay and impede" the FCC's ongoing intercarrier compensation shift to bill-and-keep arrangements in which carriers don't charge each other terminating fees (see 1709130055). A Level 3 reply comment said AT&T apparently convinced Wireline Bureau staff in private meetings to endorse an interpretation of a rule -- "Section 51.907(g)(2), which is intended to implement Step Six of the transition to bill-and-keep for tandem-switched transport access services" -- that will require "a wholesale rewriting of the rule" (see 1710260028).