A federal appeals court, ordered the FCC to report in 90 days on ...
A federal appeals court, ordered the FCC to report in 90 days on the agency’s progress in responding to a 2-year-old court remand of the FCC’s reciprocal compensation rules for ISP-bound traffic (CD Oct 1 p3). The U.S. Appeals…
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Court, D.C., deferred action Nov. 22 on a mandamus petition filed by Core Communications but said it wanted the reports every 90 days until action was taken. The FCC has been struggling to come to agreement on how to devise a plan that will hold up in court. At the same time, the FCC is working to devise an intercarrier compensation regime that would unify the many different types of carrier-to-carrier payments including the ISP-bound traffic compensation. Some companies have urged the agency to delay the ISP-bound rules until it deals with the bigger intercarrier compensation issue, but Core Communications -- which petitioned for mandamus in June -- said that would take too long. “The FCC has been running away from this issue for years,” said Core Pres. Bret Mingo: “Now they have to answer for their actions, or inactions.” He said Core “generally supports” efforts to streamline and unify intercarrier compensation schemes but “there is no excuse for the FCC to not act on the court’s remand,” he said. An FCC spokesman said the agency “takes seriously the court’s remand and we are considering that and other complex intercarrier compensation issues,” which the Commission hopes to address “in the near future.”