AT&T Tandem Switching, Transport Relief Bid Draws Substantial Opposition
Local telcos and others lined up in opposition to an AT&T forbearance petition for relief from certain intercarrier compensation tariffing duties for tandem switching and tandem-switched transport (see 1611020051). Oppositions posted Friday and Monday in docket 16-363 were from Consolidated…
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Communications and West Telecom Services, NCTA, NTCA, WTA, other rural telco groups and companies, and various CLECs. Windstream, Iowa Network Services, Inteliquent, Bandwidth.com and Onvoy filed partial oppositions while Verizon supported the petition. In seeking forbearance, AT&T said "the FCC should detariff tandem switching and transport access charges for all" LECs, "on all calls to or from LECs engaged in access stimulation," calling the action a follow-on to previous FCC determinations against "traffic pumpers" that take advantage of "arbitrage" (see 1610030048). Replies are due Dec. 19.