The FCC shouldn’t adopt phantom traffic proposals that lead to in...
The FCC shouldn’t adopt phantom traffic proposals that lead to indirect rulings on broader intercarrier compensation issues, said Alaska carrier General Communications Inc. In an ex parte filing, GCI said it doesn’t “oppose generally applicable traffic identification requirements.” USTelecom…
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and the National Exchange Carrier Association have proposed signaling rules that “appear to stray -- whether unintentionally or by design -- into the potential predetermination of (in the case of IP traffic) and the overruling of (in the case of intraMTA CMRS traffic) applicable intercarrier compensation levels,” GCI said. It’s not certain that “so-called” phantom traffic hurts incumbent carriers, the company said. The lack of evidence isn’t surprising, it said, because rate-of-return rate setting principles and the tariff pooling structure “ensure that little, if any revenues are actually lost due to untracked or untraceable access minutes.” Rate-of-return ILECs “fail to acknowledge [their] own role in traffic identification problems,” GCI said. “Many ILECs are not themselves passing necessary originating signaling information and cannot use the call signaling information they are demanding.”