The Telecom Industry Assn. (TIA) urged the FCC to grant Pulver.co...
The Telecom Industry Assn. (TIA) urged the FCC to grant Pulver.com’s petition seeking a ruling that the company’s Free World Dialup (FWD) isn’t a telecom service, saying that would be “appropriate” and “timely.” The FCC is set to consider…
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the petition at its agenda meeting Feb. 12. In an ex parte meeting last week with Jessica Rosenworcel, aide to FCC. Comr. Copps, the TIA argued VoIP wasn’t just another way of providing traditional phone service, but was “a new application on a new kind of network.” In a separate ex parte meeting with FCC Comr. Martin and aide Dan Gonzalez last Thurs., Cisco Systems said the Commission should: (1) Declare that Pulver.com’s FWD service was an interstate information service. (2) Address applicability of CALEA to different IP services, as well as issues raised by an AT&T petition on phone-to-phone IP telephony, in an “industrywide proceeding.” In a separate ex parte filing, Vonage stressed the importance of moving forward “expeditiously” with the pending VoIP NPRM. Addressing universal service, Vonage said it favored a contribution mechanism that would let VoIP providers contribute on a “more formal basis.” It also noted Sec. 254 of the Telecom Act provided the Commission broad discretion to modify Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution methodology.