Native American Telecom Says FCC Shouldn't Slash Intercarrier Tandem, Transport Fees
Native American Telecom CLECs asked the FCC not to further cut intercarrier compensation helping rural carriers serve high-cost areas. The CLECs have "infrastructures with affordable broadband services offerings that have attracted, for the first time, new business development on the…
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Pine Ridge and Crow Creek reservations" in South Dakota, said a filing posted Friday in docket 18-155 on a meeting with Wireline Bureau staffers about a June NPRM proposing steps to curb arbitraging (see 1806060010). The FCC should maintain tandem and transport access charges and require reciprocal compensation for any direct connections between rural telcos and other telecom providers, including interexchange carriers, said a presentation. With terminating access fees already being phased out, it said "any further erosion of revenue" for rural carriers "would be devastating."