CommLaw Monitor
FCC Issues Clarification, Warning about Call Blocking Practices
Responding to complaints by rural LECs that call blocking has increased, the FCC yesterday issued a clarification and a stern warning to carriers not to block, choke or restrict calls to other carriers’ customers.…
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 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…
CompTel Asks Court to Compel Action on Special Access
Since 2002, purchasers of special access services from the incumbent local telephone companies have been asking the FCC to revise its pricing rules for the services. Last month, CompTel (the leading trade association…