Bandwidth Backs Targeted FCC Intercarrier Compensation Action on Arbitrage
Bandwidth agreed with NTCA that FCC intercarrier compensation efforts should be "surgical" in focusing on "inefficient arbitrage, defining precisely what it considers to constitute such a practice and crafting remedies specifically to solve for any such concern" (see 1805230033). To…
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ensure any new rules don't increase uncertainty and litigation, Bandwidth suggested seeking comment "on how to preclude carrier self-help" against LECs that don't self-identify as access stimulators, said its filing posted Friday in docket 18-155. The company said interexchange carriers "should not be permitted to label LECs as 'access stimulators' and take unilateral action that would force tandem providers and the wrongly-labeled LECs to divert resources from providing communications networks and services to litigation." Two intercarrier compensation draft NPRMs are slated for commissioner votes at a Thursday meeting.