USTelecom and top lobbyists from its members urged “measured reform...
USTelecom and top lobbyists from its members urged “measured reform away from the current intercarrier compensation system,” the association said in an ex parte notice released Monday. Windstream’s Eric Einhorn and Mike Rhoda, Verizon’s Kathy Grillo, AT&T’s Hank Hultquist and…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
USTelecom’s Jonathan Banks met last week with Chairman Julius Genachowski’s wireline adviser Zac Katz and Wireline Bureau Chief Sharon Gillett and bureau officials Carol Mattey, Rebekah Goodheart and Amy Bender. The lobbyists said they advocated “a set of steps to harmonize and reduce intercarrier rates,” the ex parte notice said. “As intercarrier revenues fall due to rate reductions, this potential framework would provide companies an opportunity to recover these revenues from other sources -- including, in part, from an explicit fund -- for some period of time.” The filing didn’t lay out specific terms, but industry-wide talks on intercarrier comp reform have discussed anywhere from a three-year transition to a decade or longer transition to an all-Internet Protocol network.