A federal appeals court considering whether the FCC preempted sta...
A federal appeals court considering whether the FCC preempted states from compelling VoIP providers to pay into state universal service funds gave Vonage until Sept. 10 to respond to an FCC friend-of-the-court brief in which the FCC said it…
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didn’t preempt states in this area. The 8th U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis recently accepted a late-filed FCC brief because it bore directly on the central issue in the case (08-1764). Vonage had challenged the Nebraska Public Service Commission’s right to make it pay into the state universal service fund. The FCC brief said it didn’t preempt such state actions provided were consistent with federal universal service policy.