The FCC Wireline Bureau sought comment on Sprint Nextel’s petition...
The FCC Wireline Bureau sought comment on Sprint Nextel’s petition for declaratory ruling on a number of issues concerning the applicability of tariffed access rates to VoIP-originated calls. Sprint asked the commission to declare that before Dec. 29, “access tariffs…
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filed with the Commission, including CenturyLink’s tariffs, did not impose compensation obligations on VoIP originated calls delivered over the public switched telephone network.” Sprint also seeks a ruling that “because the VoIP originated traffic is jurisdictionally interstate, intrastate access tariffs cannot impose compensation obligations with respect to that traffic, even if those calls originate and terminate in the same state.” Sprint wants the FCC to declare that it did not violate Section 201(b) of the Communications Act when it compensated CenturyLink at $0.0007 per minute, rather than at rates in CenturyLink’s switched access tariffs. The public notice (http://xrl.us/bm5tgi) said the petition was filed “to effectuate a referral” from a Louisiana district court, where CenturyLink filed a complaint against Sprint to enforce state and federal access tariffs with respect to VoIP-originated calls. Comments are due June 14 in docket 12-105, replies July 16.