Alaska Communications Systems requested a limited waiver of the new...
Alaska Communications Systems requested a limited waiver of the new phantom traffic call signaling rules adopted in the Universal Service Fund/intercarrier compensation order, saying compliance is “not technically feasible” because of “deficiencies in the company’s currently deployed equipment, and due…
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to the absence of necessary industry standards,” ACS said in its petition Friday (http://xrl.us/bmyscr). The phantom traffic rules require VoIP providers to transmit the telephone number of the calling party for all traffic terminated on the public switched telephone network. “ACS’s SS7 switches and MF signaling trunks are not capable of generating or passing the information required” in all cases, the petition said.