T-Mobile General Counsel Asks FCC to Provide Data Roaming Clarity
T-Mobile USA General Counsel Dave Miller pressed the FCC to act on the carrier’s May petition for a declaratory ruling containing guidance and “predictable” enforcement criteria for determining whether the terms of data roaming agreements meet the “commercially reasonable” standard…
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adopted in a 2011 data roaming order (see 1408220055). Miller and others from T-Mobile met with FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet to make their case, said a filing posted Friday in docket 05-265. “Action is needed now, as T-Mobile and other carriers are negotiating new data roaming agreements -- many of which are replacing legacy agreements negotiated prior to the release of the Data Roaming Order.” T-Mobile isn’t seeking rate regulation, the carrier stressed. “Instead, it requests a ruling well within the Commission’s authority and which was, in fact, anticipated in the Data Roaming Order.”