CTIA Backs FCC Rural Calling Draft Sunset of Data Recording, Retention Rules
CTIA supported the FCC's proposed "sunset" of data recording and retention rules in a rural call completion draft order scheduled for a vote at commissioners' March 15 meeting. The rules "imposed burdens without contributing to solving RCC issues," filed the…
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group, posted Thursday in docket 13-39. A requirement that "covered" originating providers maintain a "pre-packaged set of data for rural call completion rule compliance only," as noted by the draft, is "particularly costly for covered providers," CTIA said. The draft would eliminate the rules one year after the order's intermediate carrier service-quality standards take effect.