Intercarrier compensation disputes “continue to permeate daily business”...
Intercarrier compensation disputes “continue to permeate daily business” in the telecom industry, and are “particularly acute for IP providers,” O1 Communications told the FCC in a letter Thursday (http://bit.ly/1c1ttP2). Both AT&T and Verizon refuse to pay O1 for the end-office…
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switching functions associated with VoIP services provided to over-the-top VoIP customers, the California CLEC said. “This issue alone has tied up millions of dollars” that would otherwise go toward expanding O1’s network, it said. The commission must make a decision on reciprocal access charges, it said, and find that end-office switching charges are compensable when a CLEC and over-the-top VoIP provider jointly provide voice communications services to a retail customer.