Several carriers agree with Windstream and Frontier’s assertion that the...
Several carriers agree with Windstream and Frontier’s assertion that the commission’s Universal Service Fund/Intercarrier Compensation Order “did not intend to flash-cut originating access rates for PSTN-to-VoIP calls,” the companies said in a reply petition filed Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bmtaby). Cbeyond, EarthLink, Integra…
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and tw telecom asked the commission to say that, Windstream/Frontier wrote, saying NECA, OPASTCO and the Western Telecommunications Alliance have requested a similar clarification. “Even AT&T, which disagrees with the Petition, agrees that the access recovery mechanism would need to be expanded if PSTN-to-VoIP originating access rates are flash-cut to interstate levels,” they wrote. The two LECs have been sparring with interexchange carriers over how to handle intrastate originating access rates for calls that start over the public switched telephone network and terminate on the Internet (CD Feb 14 p13).