National Exchange Carrier Assn. (NECA) filed new access tariff re...
National Exchange Carrier Assn. (NECA) filed new access tariff revisions with FCC “under protest” because they reflect end user charges to recover Universal Service Fund contributions, which NECA doesn’t support. NECA said it filed tariff Mon. to comply with…
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FCC order but order didn’t grant NECA’s request to recover these contributions from long distance carriers, rather than end users, through explicit per-min. charge. New access charge tariffs include 1.9% increase for traffic sensitive switched access and 10.3% increase for composite carrier common line (CCL) rate. Traffic sensitive special access rates remained unchanged.