CommLaw Monitor
VoIP Access Charge Appeal To Proceed After Nearly Two Year Delay
A long time ago, we posted about a decision of the US District Court in DC declaring that VoIP traffic was not subject to access charges and the strange coalition that asked the Court of Appeals to review the case.…
FCC Again Supports CLECs in 1996 Act Litigation
One of the trends in 2011 has been the rise in amicus filings by the FCC in litigation matters. This trend is fueled, no doubt, by the Supreme Court's determination in Talk America v. Michigan Bell earlier this year…
FCC ICC/USF Reform Order Published in Federal Register
This morning, the FCC's November 18, 2011 High-Cost USF and Intercarrier Reform Compensation Order was published in the Federal Register triggering an effective date of December 29, 2011 for all parts of the Order and…
FCC Releases Text of Intercarrier Compensation Order
Late yesterday, the FCC released the text of its USF Reform and Intercarrier Compensation Reform Order, which it adopted on October 27 . The FCC's rules, among other things, transition terminating access charges to…
DC Circuit to Decide Net Neutrality Appeals
The same circuit that decided the Comcast case will decide the net neutrality appeals after all. Yesterday, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced that the D.C. Circuit had been selected by random…