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title: FCC Clarifies USF Reform/Intercarrier Compensation Order
date: 2012-02-08T12:28:14-05:00
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# FCC Clarifies USF Reform/Intercarrier Compensation Order

 February 8, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

*This post was drafted by [Chip Yorkgitis](http://www.kelleydrye.com/attorneys/chip_yorkgitis).*

On Friday, February 3, 2012, the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau jointly released an order revising and clarifying certain aspects of the [sweeping universal service and intercarrier compensation reform order](http://www.telecomlawmonitor.com/2011/11/articles/access-charges/fcc-releases-text-of-intercarrier-compensation-order/#more) adopted last November. The clarifications address the rates applicable to VoIP-PSTN traffic, access stimulation and the CETC phase-down of high-cost support, among other things.

The clarification order will be effective thirty days after it is published in the Federal Register, which is likely to occur quickly. However, as a practical matter, the clarifications are effective immediately in light of the rules being clarified already having taken effect.

For more information, see [Kelley Drye’s Advisory](http://www.kelleydrye.com/publications/client_advisories/0721) on the clarification order.

 

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