Windstream has already seen “significant variations in the IP factors...
Windstream has already seen “significant variations in the IP factors provided by various large carriers” after the USF/intercarrier compensation order reducing certain VoIP access charges to interstate levels, it told FCC Wireline Bureau officials and an aide to Chairman Julius…
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Genachowski (http://xrl.us/bm2pbe). Based on the VoIP factors submitted to Windstream by interexchange carriers (http://xrl.us/bm2pdk), calls that either originate or terminate in VoIP make up between 10.6 percent and 34.2 percent of its total wired calls, depending on the state, it said. Because Windstream can’t determine whether traffic terminated on its network originated in IP format, or whether traffic it originates is terminated in IP format, challenging “surprisingly high factors” will be “time-consuming and resource-intensive,” it said. Windstream urged the commission to give carriers time to address “IP factor implementation concerns” before pressing ahead with originating access reform. If the commission does mandate reductions to originating access, it should provide an access recovery mechanism, Windstream said.