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Wireline Competition Bureau Clarifies and Revises the FCC's Rules as Carriers Prepare to Make Transitional Intrastate Access Reciprocal Compensation Rate Reductions
Compliance with the FCC's revised intercarrier compensation rules adopted in its USF/ICC Transformation Order continues to be a work in progress for many carriers. The rules have generated several waves of questions as…
Commissioners Rosenworcel and Pai Take Office
One week after Senate confirmation, new FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Pai were sworn in to office. With these appointments, the FCC reaches its full complement of commissioners for the first time in…
Verizon and Verizon Wireless Pay $200,000 to Settle Outage Reporting Investigations
Randy Sifers contributed to this blog post. On March 14, 2012, the FCC released two consent decrees settling investigations into Verizon’s and Verizon Wireless’s outage reporting practices. Collectively, the two…
FCC Extends Outage Reporting Requirements To All Interconnected VoIP Providers
On February 21, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission issued a Report and Order ("Order") adopting outage reporting requirements for both facilities-based and non-facilities-based interconnected Voice over…
FCC Releases Comprehensive Low-Income Program Reform
The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") released an Order on February 6, 2012 to comprehensively reform the low-income program of the Universal Service Fund to eliminate Link Up in non-Tribal…