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The FCC shouldn’t comprehensively revamp intercarrier compensatio...

The FCC shouldn’t comprehensively revamp intercarrier compensation or the universal service fund at its Nov. 4 meeting, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners said. In a Tuesday motion sent to commissioners, NARUC said the FCC should seek comment…

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on the draft orders recently circulated by Chairman Kevin Martin. At the meeting, the FCC should answer only a court order to explain the legal basis for the agency’s ISP-bound traffic compensation issues, it said. “The 167 page detailed draft raises a host of issues that no-one -- including the majority of the FCC Commissioners that are expected to vote on the document in two weeks -- has had (or will have) time to fully assimilate,” NARUC said. Acting too quickly “will dramatically increase the odds of a successful appeal -- which will perversely delay reform which is clearly within reach,” it said.