Executives from major cable operators met with FCC officials on the...
Executives from major cable operators met with FCC officials on the Universal Service Fund last week, docket 10-90 shows (http://xrl.us/bmeh8a). The industry was at the commission and on Capitol Hill to make its case against some aspects of the ILEC-backed…
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USF and intercarrier compensation reform plan (CD Sept 22 p2). Comcast/NBCU Washington President Kyle McSlarrow told Commissioner Robert McDowell that reforming ICC should include eliminating “the disputes and controversies between voice service providers that have plagued the current regime,” said a filing posted in the docket Monday. “The Commission can accomplish this principal objective by making clear that terminating exchange access and termination under section 251(b)(5) includes the termination of voice calls to an end user or to an affiliated or unaffiliated voice provider that in turn delivers the call to a retail end user and by adopting conforming changes to the Commission’s rules.” Rules on transport and termination of voice traffic should have no effect on current deals on tandem transit services, Comcast said. Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable were among the other cable operators to lobby agency officials, filings posted to the docket late last week show.