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The FCC must address Internet Protocol-to-IP interconnection for facilities-based services in...

The FCC must address Internet Protocol-to-IP interconnection for facilities-based services in the context of Section 251 of the Communications Act, CompTel told an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bnk5kw). The service, provided over private, closed…

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or managed networks, doesn’t transverse the public Internet, CompTel said. It’s a telecom service, and Section 251(c)(2) applies to interconnection with an ILEC for provisioning purposes, CompTel said. Its officials also met with a Wireline Bureau staffer to note that CLECs might not be able to provide certain information, such as type of facility -- hybrid or copper -- if they have to report on unbundled network elements they had leased from the ILEC (http://xrl.us/bnk5me).