CLECs Support CenturyLink Proposals on Direct Interconnection, VoIP Symmetry
CLECs and others backed CenturyLink direct interconnection and VoIP symmetry proposals at the FCC. "Adopt a rule confirming that all carriers have the duty to either (a) permit any requesting carrier to obtain direct network interconnection for the termination of…
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access traffic or (b) bear responsibility for the costs of receiving traffic via indirect interconnection, if the carrier receiving a request for direct interconnection prefers to receive traffic indirectly," filed Allstream, ANI Networks, Consolidated Communications, First Communications, Impact Telecom, Magna5, Masergy, Midwest Association of Competitive Communications, NuAccess, Peerless Network, Teliax and Wholesale Carrier Services, Tuesday in docket 18-155. They urged approval of CenturyLink's May 11 declaratory ruling petition that "end office local switching access reciprocal compensation charges apply to traffic that originates from or terminates to an 'over-the-top' VoIP end-user." That "will ensure carriers that have already invested in deploying IP-based services are not penalized vis-à-vis those that have not, such as Verizon and AT&T in many locations," said the filing. "A contrary finding would undermine the significant investments made into IP-based services since adoption of the VoIP Symmetry Rule in 2011." The investments are "important to many long-standing policy objectives" and "critical to addressing the Commission’s top priorities for 'this year' -- such as implementation of the [Secure Handling of Asserted information Using Tokens/Secure Telephony Identity Revisited] framework to eliminate unlawful spoofed robocalling" (see 1903200066). The FCC, AT&T and Verizon didn't comment Wednesday.