Telcos supported HyperCube’s petition for a waiver of FCC rules...
Telcos supported HyperCube’s petition for a waiver of FCC rules regarding multi-frequency signaling. They took issue with the company’s other requests, including waivers of call signaling rules for Internet protocol traffic, and of rules prohibiting carriers from altering calling party…
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number or charge number data, in comments filed Thursday. CenturyLink said HyperCube failed to give “adequate explanation as to the intended scope of the requested waiver or seeks an overload broad waiver or both” (http://xrl.us/bnj8kw). NTCA, OPASTCO, NECA and the Eastern Rural Telecom Association recommended the commission require additional information before considering granting waivers of its call signaling rules for IP traffic, and refrain from waiving its rules to permit any carrier to alter customer proprietary network or customer network data, or insert something other than the true CN in the signaling stream (http://xrl.us/bnj8k8). “There are several standardized approaches” that will ensure “seamless” interoperability between VoIP and the public switched telephone network, they said. Permitting altered CN data can let providers insert a “billing number” to “alter the jurisdiction, and thus the billing” of certain calls, leading to providers “avoiding the payment of lawful access charges,” they said.