Teliax, O1 Communications Press FCC Leadership to Maintain Access Charge Revenue
Teliax and O1 Communications urged the FCC to take intercarrier compensation actions that preserve revenue used to invest in advanced IP networks. Inability to earn access charges "would result in a strong movement back to monopoly," they filed on meeting…
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Commissioner Brendan Carr and an aide, posted Tuesday in docket 01-92. They also had meetings with aides to the three other commissioners (here, here, here). "Over-the-top VoIP providers and their CLEC partners perform the very same functions as cable TV operators do for facilities-based VoIP services and as TDM voice providers do for traditional voice services," they said, while the broadband connection provider "merely transports packets." Noting CenturyLink's petition on a court remand (see 1807050040), they asked the FCC to ensure "end office switched access charges apply" to OTT VoIP calls when a LEC or its VoIP partner performs "end office functions." They want the FCC to "confirm its policy against disruptive interexchange carrier ('IXC') self-help tactics and hold that IXCs found to engage in such practices will be subject to penalties."