Rural carriers don’t necessarily think a proposed $0.0007 uniform...
Rural carriers don’t necessarily think a proposed $0.0007 uniform terminating access rate is gaining traction at the FCC, Dan Mitchell, legal vice president for the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association, said in an interview. That’s so even though the rural…
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carrier trade association has asked Congress to quash that proposal (CD Oct 2 p7), he told us. Watching Bells “actively engage” the FCC in support of the “triple-oh-seven” plan pushed rural carriers to act, he said. NTCA wants to make sure the agency has the “complete story,” Mitchell said. Wednesday, NTCA CEO Michael Brunner urged Congress to intervene, saying the FCC was “seriously considering” a proposal by Verizon, AT&T and others to set a $0.0007 uniform terminating access rate for all traffic. NTCA has condemned that plan as legally unsound and hurtful to rural carriers.