The FCC must “drop the hammer” on carriers who fail...
The FCC must “drop the hammer” on carriers who fail to complete calls to rural areas, NARUC told an aide to Commissioner Ajit Pai Friday, an ex parte filing said (http://xrl.us/bodpcr). Non-compliant carriers have “not been deterred” by the Feb.…
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2012 declaratory ruling about the importance of call completion rules. Those carriers “obviously need to see actual enforcement actions with significant consequences,” NARUC said. The association cited the “Magic Jack” phone call device, which says in its terms of service that “some restrictions in cost prohibitive areas may apply,” as a company that needs FCC scrutiny. Instead of the proposed call completion rulemaking seeking comment on data collection to quantify the problem (CD Jan 25 p1), the FCC should “just simply mandate the data collection now,” NARUC said.