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Webinar: The Emerging Role and Impact of ICAs under FCC Reform

Posted by Michele Campbell on Tue, Feb 05, 2013
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As intercarrier compensation reform and the PSTN-to-IP transition progress, interconnection agreements (ICAs) and similar commercial agreements among carriers will take on a greater and more important role.

Join attorney Jim Lister of Birch Horton Bittner and Cherot, P.C. and your peers on Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. Eastern for, “The Emerging Role and Impact of ICAs under FCC Reform,” an in-depth examination of the issues that might play out in the coming months and years. 

Now is the time to understand their new role and how to research them when preparing for your next business expansion or contractual update.

Jim walks you through the basics of ICAs, details their growing relevance and importance, and gives you the details to need to manage and maintain your network.

ICAs are expanding to take up roles formally governed by tariffs. Don't be caught off-guard.

Register @ www.ccmi.com/ICA-Emerging-Role-Reg.









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Tags: rate and tariff data, FCC, regulatory updates, intercarrier compensation, webinar, ICAs, Interconnection Agreements

Telco Access Alert :: FCC :: February 2013

Posted by Andrew Regitsky on Mon, Feb 04, 2013
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Telco Access Alert is a regular update of new and ongoing telecommunications regulatory proceedings at the state and federal levels.

Interstate Access Charge Proceedings for January 2013

Compiled by Andrew Regitsky, President, Regitsky & Associates

FCC Docket No. 10-90 – Major Carrier Dispute for 2013 – When Can CLECs Assess End Office Local Switching Charges

The disagreement between AT&T on one side and Level 3 and Bandwidth.com on the other is heating up at the FCC. The dispute involves whether AT&T must pay switched access local switching charges to these CLECs for calls in which the CLECs partner with “over-the-top” VoIP providers to route calls over the public Internet to the VoIP provider’s end users. This is a very significant case, not just because the money involved is considerable, but  ...

Docket 10-90 – As a Formal Proceeding Begins, CLECs Attack AT&T’s Petition Requesting the FCC to Mandate the Retirement of All TDM-Based Services/Networks and Transition to an IP-Based Network

In the opening skirmish in what may be the most contentious proceeding in 2013, CLECs Cbeyond, Earthlink, Integra Telecom and Time Warner Telecom (“the CLECs”) have filed a response to the 2012 AT&T petition that requested the Commission to initiate a proceeding to develop a course of action to eliminate ...

Docket 06-122 - Carriers Protest the Commission’s Clarified Reseller Rules for Universal Service Contributions

TelePacific has filed a Petition seeking partial reconsideration of the November 5, 2012, FCC Order in Docket 06-122 clarifying how the universal service rules apply to wholesale providers and their customers. In that Order, the Commission clarified that “reseller” certification is required on ...

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Doubling Down on Universal Service Fund (USF)

Posted by George David on Sat, Feb 02, 2013
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Every once in a while, it pays to dismiss – or at least discount – policy arguments and look at the cold, hard facts. So, while the FCC’s interminable deliberations on Universal Service Fund (USF) reform continue consider this: in just under 10 years, the USF contribution rate has doubled. That’s right, doubled.

In the fourth quarter of 2003, the USF contribution rate was 8.7% – a number that at the time seemed extraordinarily high.  In the fourth quarter of 2012, the USF contribution rate hit 17.4% – a 100% increase from 2003!



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Telco Access Alert :: Intrastate :: January 2013

Posted by Ed Sullivan on Fri, Jan 25, 2013
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Telco Access Alert is a regular update of new and ongoing telecommunications regulatory proceedings at the state and federal levels.

Intrastate Access Charge Proceedings for January 2013

Alaska – Change to Alaska Universal Service Fund (AUSF), Case No. TA15-998, approved November 30, 2012.
rca.alaska.gov/RCAWeb/Orders/OrderDetails.aspx?id=0ae7673f-5594-4b63-bbe8-7d15067c2b11

Effective January 1, 2013, the Regulatory Commission of Alaska approved a rate of 9.3% for the Alaska Universal Service Fund. This is a decrease of 0.2% from the AUSF rate for 2012, but more than the originally proposed rate of 8.5%.

Arizona – Change to Arizona Universal Service Fund (AUSF), Docket R-00000H-97-0137, and Decision 73626, approved December 12, 2012.
edocket.azcc.gov/Default.aspx?SEARCH=RT-00000H-97-0137

Effective January 1, 2013, the Arizona Corporation Commission approved increases to the Arizona Universal Service Fund. Category One providers will have a surcharge of $0.010456 per access line and $0.104569 per interconnecting trunk line applied to their offerings. These figures represent an increase

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