CenturyLink supports Verizon’s petition for waiver of the call signaling...
CenturyLink supports Verizon’s petition for waiver of the call signaling rules adopted in the Universal Service Fund/intercarrier compensation order (http://xrl.us/bmywbu). When it adopted the order, “the Commission declined to adopt a technical feasibility exception to the call signaling rules and,…
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instead, encouraged carriers to seek waivers of the rules where necessary,” said CenturyLink, which filed a similar waiver request. CenturyLink said good cause exists for a grant of Verizon’s requested waiver, as long as the commission makes “expressly clear” that the waiver is granted based on the specific facts presented by Verizon’s petition of the limited amount of traffic at issue. “CenturyLink has some concern that, particularly for certain aspects of Verizon’s waiver (e.g., the request for a waiver in certain circumstances where it operates as either a VoIP originator or intermediate IP carrier), the same waiver would not be appropriate in other contexts with other carriers,” it said. Frontier opposed Verizon’s request (http://xrl.us/bmywgi), arguing it “would create broad exceptions that have the potential to negate the intent of the Commission’s rules."