Cox Communications said it’s willing to accept a reduction in originating access...
Cox Communications said it’s willing to accept a reduction in originating access rates for calls originating over traditional phone lines and terminating in Internet Protocol. But the company would also support a modification of the FCC rule to permit intrastate…
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rates to be applied to all intrastate calls, regardless of the nature of the technology used by the access provider. Cox met with an aide to Commissioner Robert McDowell, the cable operator said in an ex parte filing (http://xrl.us/bmzkuo). What’s critical is maintaining the parity provided in the current FCC rule, Cox said, adding that it would be “inappropriate” to modify the rule to treat carriers that originate traffic in TDM format differently than those that originate traffic in IP format.