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Bandwidth Urges FCC to Strengthen Access Arbitrage Rules

Bandwidth asked the FCC to "strengthen its access arbitrage rules" and "promote direct IP interconnection and settlement-free exchange of balanced traffic," in a letter posted Friday in docket 18-155 (see 2209070072). IP-enabled service providers "should be able to determine an…

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inbound/outbound traffic ratio for each switch," it said, asking the FCC to provide examples of "or equivalent" about the end office trigger of its proposed rules to "avoid gaming of the system." Bandwidth agreed with AT&T that "bringing IPES providers with direct numbering resources within the scope of the rules may make the 'serving end users' language unnecessary."