LEC Coalition Urges FCC Not to Undermine Court Ruling on IntraMTA Wireless Rule Dispute
Local telcos asked the FCC not to undercut court decisions helpful to their 2014 petition for a declaratory ruling on a wireless intraMTA (major trading area) rule interpretation. In consolidated multidistrict litigation, "the U.S. District Court for the Northern District…
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of Texas has resolved key questions of law ... in a manner that upholds the positions advanced by the LEC Coalition," said the filing of representatives CenturyLink, Cox Communications, Frontier Communications and Windstream on a meeting with FCC General Counsel Tom Johnson and aides, posted in docket 01-92 Friday. "Refrain from any action inconsistent with the court’s findings," they recommended. They said the FCC should pursue a rulemaking if it seeks to develop mechanisms that might be used prospectively for "interexchange carriers to route commingled traffic through Feature Group D trunks, while treating intraMTA wireless traffic as exempt from access charges." The LEC Coalition petition asked the FCC “to confirm” that the intraMTA rule -- under which calls exchanged by LECs and mobile carriers within an MTA are subject to reciprocal compensation -- doesn't apply to LEC access charges to IXCs under switched access tariffs. The FCC is driving access charges down, but traditionally they have been higher than reciprocal compensation fees.