Google wants “rapid and decisive FCC action” to retool the...
Google wants “rapid and decisive FCC action” to retool the Universal Service Fund for broadband, but has some reservations about “backward-looking incentives” in telco proposals for reform, Google said in an ex parte notice filed on docket 10-90 (http://xrl.us/bk3xx6) and…
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released Tuesday. “We noted the overly-lengthy proposed transition periods to more cost-based traffic termination rates, and the negative impact of recommendations to extend, for the first time, the antiquated carrier access charge regime to voice over Internet protocol applications,” Google said in its ex parte. Google Director Richard Whitt conveyed his message in a phone chat with Zac Katz, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s top wireline adviser, and Michael Steffen, FCC special counsel. The conversation took place on Thursday, one day before six large incumbents filed an agreement on reforms. The system can be overhauled in three years, Google said in its notice.