A recently enacted California statute authorizes the California Public Utilities...
A recently enacted California statute authorizes the California Public Utilities Commission to require interconnected VoIP service providers to begin collecting USF fees. The new law defines “interconnected VoIP service” as having the same meaning as in federal law. Under the…
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law the CPUC won’t have to declare that interconnected VoIP providers are telephone companies. The new law also establishes how VoIP providers can allocate revenue and determine the locale of users of nomadic VoIP services. The CPUC has a pending rulemaking (R. 11-01-008) in which it’s considering whether to impose surcharges on interconnected VoIP.