NARUC urged the FCC not to deal with jurisdiction separately from...
NARUC urged the FCC not to deal with jurisdiction separately from other VoIP issues because “acting in a piecemeal fashion can only undermine resolution of other issues raised in that docket and the related open proceedings on intercarrier compensation…
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and universal service.” In an Oct. 20 ex parte letter, NARUC warned that ruling separately on jurisdiction “could prompt existing carriers to mimic AT&T’s phone-to-Internet-to- phone ‘least cost ruling’ to potentially destabilize intrastate access charge regimes as well as erode the support base for the, at least, $1.9 billion that 24 states disburse from their own universal service programs.” The FCC should act first on intercarrier compensation and then act “on all issues presented in the IP Enabled Service proceeding simultaneously,” NARUC said.