Today, NECA, NTCA, WTA, OPASTCO and ERTA filed comments urging the FCC to deny Sprint’s petition for a declaratory ruling on several issues pertaining to the applicability of tariffed access rates to VoIP-originated calls prior to December 29, 2011.… Continue reading “Rural Associations Urge FCC to Deny Sprint Petition for Declaratory Ruling on VoIP-Originated Traffic”
Today, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO submitted to the FCC comments in support of NECA’s request for a temporary and expedited waiver of the FCC’s rules and related Orders governing the calculation of Interstate Access Recovery Charge rates and reporting of … Continue reading “Rural Associations Support NECA’s Waiver of Rules Regarding ARC Rates”
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WASHINGTON (May 25, 2012) – NTCA, OPASTCO, WTA and NECA filed an Application for Review and Petition for Stay… Continue reading “Rural Associations Urge Stay of Regression-Based Caps on USF Support”
On May 14th, NECA, WTA, NTCA, and OPASTCO filed comments in response to a request for partial waiver of the FCC’s call signaling rules by Level 3. The rural associations stated they “do not oppose grant of a waiver to … Continue reading “Rural Associations File Comments on Level 3 Call Signaling Waiver Petition”
On May 17th, NECA, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO met with representatives from the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau and Wireline Bureau to discuss the results of the Associations’ recently completed call completion survey. A notice of ex parte was filed.… Continue reading “Rural Associations Discuss Call Completion Survey with FCC”
Today, NECA, WTA, NTCA and OPASTCO filed comments on two petitions requesting waiver of the FCC’s call signaling rules. The Alaska Rural Companies requested a broad waiver of the rules, and, in their comments, the rural associations “do not … Continue reading “Rural Associations File Comments on ARC and Fairpoint Call Signaling Waiver Petitions”
Today, WTA, NECA, NTCA and OPASTCO filed comments in a proceeding regarding the petition for waiver by the Alaska Communications Systems Group of the FCC’s newly-adopted call signaling rules with respect to certain SS7 network elements, multi-frequency signaling equipment, and … Continue reading “Rural Associations File Comments on ACS Call Signaling Waiver Petition”
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