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The FCC should clarify that Internet Protocol interconnection...

The FCC should clarify that Internet Protocol interconnection with ILECs for managed VoIP service is governed by Section 251 of the Communications Act, Cablevision and Charter Communications told agency officials Monday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/ZQdlMm). ILECs are “unwilling…

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to provide IP interconnection on commercially reasonable terms (if at all),” the cable companies said. As ILECs remain the dominant providers of fixed voice services in “all or virtually all markets in the country,” the commission should clarify their IP interconnection obligations “expeditiously,” the operators said.