Declare Traffic Starting or Ending With OTT VoIP Can Lead to Reciprocal Comp, CenturyLink Asks FCC
CenturyLink wants the FCC to declare that traffic ending or starting with an over-the-top VoIP customer whose provider partners with a LEC to exchange traffic with the public switched telephone network can collect end office local switching access reciprocal compensation.…
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Declaring such when the LEC and/or VoIP partner do things like call initiation or termination would “terminate a controversy or remove uncertainty,” said the company which described itself as a CLEC with such partnerships and also an interexchange carrier getting access reciprocal compensation invoices. "CenturyLink seeks a definitive resolution so that all industry participants know what charges must be paid and when," it filed in docket 10-90, posted Monday. It asked the regulator to complete a 2016 remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in AT&T v. FCC. The commission declined to comment Tuesday.