O1 Communications lodged a complaint against Verizon California, Verizon Communications...
O1 Communications lodged a complaint against Verizon California, Verizon Communications and Verizon Business over a longtime fight about payments related to an interconnection agreement. O1 asked the California Public Utilities Commission to enforce dispute resolution proceedings and prevent the termination…
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of its agreement with Verizon. “Over the years, a series of disputes have arisen between O1 and both Verizon entities, including disagreements regarding traffic mix and charges for ISP-bound, Voice over Internet Protocol ('VoIP'), VNXX and other traffic,” O1 said in a Tuesday filing (http://xrl.us/bnohzh). “O1 has reached a stalemate with Verizon California relating to 2012 charges for these services, necessitating the filing of this Complaint to avoid disconnection. Each carrier owes the other compensation for traffic.” O1 is owed more than it owes, the company said. Verizon California attempted to sever its interconnection agreement with O1 in May without telling O1 and refused to meet with O1, O1 recounted. The threat of termination is “improper” as well as “unjustified and illegal” and puts “all of the end users on O1’s network, including sensitive entities, such as hospitals and schools, in jeopardy of losing service,” O1 said. Verizon declined to comment.