Sides Battle Over IntraMTA Payments
The FCC should grant the petition by Bright House Networks and others for a declaratory ruling that intraMTA wireless calls exchanged between LECs and wireless carriers aren't subject to reciprocal compensation in some cases, ITTA said in comments filed Monday.…
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The comments, which hadn't been posted in docket 14-228, were made available to us by the association. The rule requiring reciprocity “has no application” to traffic exchanged between LECs and interexchange carriers over switched access trunks, ITTA said. The Dec. 10 petition was filed by Bright House, CenturyLink, Consolidated Communications, Cox Communications, FairPoint Communications, Frontier Communications, LICT Corp., Time Warner Cable and Windstream. CTIA urged the commission in a comment filed Monday to re-affirm the compensation is reciprocal, because it's “consistent with the Commission’s goals for intercarrier compensation reform.” The argument that interexchange carrier traffic isn't subject to reciprocity “has no merit,“ CTIA said. All intraMTA CMRS traffic is “’local,’ even if carried by an intermediate carrier such as an IXC,” CTIA said.