CommLaw Monitor
It's Official: First Quarter 2012 USF Contribution Factor Rises to a Record High 17.9 Percent
As we warned over a week ago, the USF contribution factor is rising to a new record high of 17.9%. The Commission made it official late today, releasing this Public Notice announcing the new contribution factor for…
USF Factor to Rise to 17.9%, Will This Finally Lead to Contribution Reform?
This is starting to sound like a broken record. Once again, the USF contribution factor is poised to make a big jump upward to a new record high. Once again, we wonder here whether this will finally be the time that…
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…
FCC Denies IP Conferencing Appeal; Moving Forward on Reconsideration of Conferencing Classification Decision
For audio conferencing providers, "round two" of the FCC's regulation has begun. (Round one was 2008's Audio Bridging Classification Order, which applied direct USF contributions to the audio conferencing industry). On…