The Kansas Corporation Commission ordered interconnected VoIP pro...
The Kansas Corporation Commission ordered interconnected VoIP providers to begin contributing to the state universal service fund starting in January. The commission said VoIP providers can determine their intrastate revenue by direct measurement, company specific traffic study or by…
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using the FCC’s “safe harbor” revenue split for the federal universal service fund that assigns 35.1 percent of total revenue to intrastate service. The commission said if a provider wants to use some other method, it must file a proposal. The order said interconnected VoIP providers can be identified through public sources like advertisements, state and federal reports, or through companies and customers. The commission said its order (Case 07-GIMT-432-GIT) applies to both nomadic and fixed VoIP services as long as they interconnect with the public switched telephone network. VoIP-to-VoIP calls that don’t originate or terminate on the PSTN are exempt from contribution.