A USTelecom proposal of a plan for reducing phantom traffic on ph...
A USTelecom proposal of a plan for reducing phantom traffic on phone networks “is a reasonable step toward a… solution” because it “represents a consensus position,” the Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliance told the FCC Thursday in an ex…
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parte. The bottom line for any proposal is “carriers that use the network must help pay for it,” said the group of mid-size incumbent carriers. Representatives of USTelecom and some of its members met Monday with FCC staff to outline a proposal to require all originating providers to transmit the phone numbers assigned to calling parties. Any other carriers in the calling route would have to pass on that information “without alternation,” said USTelecom in an ex parte filing a day later. USTelecom proposed technical rules involving local number portability queries and “traffic termination agreements” to make the recommended mandates work. “It should be deemed an unreasonable practice for a provider to route traffic for the purpose of disguising the identity of the financially responsible provider or the traffic’s originating jurisdiction,” the USTelecom proposal said. The rules would be enforced through the FCC’s complaint process “or other such remedies as may be permitted by law.”