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Companies need only pay a universal service contribution for the ...

Companies need only pay a universal service contribution for the telecom service aspects of multi-protocol label switching, consistent with FCC precedent on other transmission protocols with information-processing capabilities, the FCC Wireline Bureau said. In a late Wednesday letter to…

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the Universal Service Administrative Co., the bureau appeared to respond to a petition by Masergy Communications filed last Friday (CD March 31 p7). Masergy urged the FCC to clarify that information service aspects of MPLS shouldn’t be subject to USF contribution.