State advocates have continued crying out against the problem of...
State advocates have continued crying out against the problem of rural call completion. “Regardless of what state I was in, the conversation quickly turned to call completion problems that rural communications providers continue to experience at high levels,” National Telecommunications…
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Cooperative Association CEO Shirley Bloomfield said on her official blog Monday (http://xrl.us/bnscfu). John Burke, chair of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) telecom committee and member of the Vermont Public Service Board, had urged the FCC in a Sept. 26 letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski (http://xrl.us/bnscfm) to “drop the hammer.” The rural call termination problem “persists,” and the FCC “needs to expeditiously identify a provider or providers that have not resolved practices that result in call termination issues identified in the [FCC’s] February 6 Declaratory Ruling and take appropriate and swift action, including imposing the penalties outlined in that order,” he wrote. NARUC had passed a resolution at its July meeting praising the FCC’s ruling and urging continued action. Bloomfield echoed Burke’s sentiments and call to action. She talked of revenues “lost” and job applicants who have “missed opportunities.”