Windstream and Frontier want the FCC to clarify that last...
Windstream and Frontier want the FCC to clarify that last year’s Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation order did not reduce rates for toll traffic originating on the public switched telephone network and terminating on the Internet, said ex parte…
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filings (http://xrl.us/bmrffc, http://xrl.us/bmrffg). Traditional intrastate access rates should apply to this originating traffic, Kathleen Abernathy, Frontier’s chief legal officer, told Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett. That echoed comments made in its petition for reconsideration and clarification, filed jointly with Windstream. Windstream also urged the FCC to reconsider its “one unserved location per $775” deployment requirement for Connect America Fund Phase I support. That rule would require that each $775 in incremental support be able to fund a high-speed connection reliable enough for VoIP calling. Windstream asked that this requirement be replaced with a more targeted accountability mechanism, which it said would account for differences in individual companies’ service territories and “ensure that companies are not punished as a result of having deployed broadband aggressively in rural areas,” according to the filing.