A mid-sized cable operator worries about worsening arbitrage among interexchange carriers...
A mid-sized cable operator worries about worsening arbitrage among interexchange carriers for phone traffic claimed to be Internet Protocol-based that really isn’t, if the FCC adopts the Universal Service Fund reform plan proposed by major phone companies. Midcontinent Communications said…
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CEO Patrick McAdaragh told Commissioner Robert McDowell and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., about those concerns in a meeting in Sioux Falls. “Midcontinent already feels significant impact from rate arbitrage resulting from phantom traffic” and from what it called traffic pumping, said a filing posted Thursday to docket 10-90 (http://xrl.us/bmcw5q).