The text of the FCC’s rural call completion...
The text of the FCC’s rural call completion order was released Friday (http://bit.ly/1bjuocF). The order, approved 3-0, will let the commission monitor the delivery of long-distance calls to rural areas, aiding enforcement action, it said. It mandates retaining and reporting…
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data on call completion rates to rural areas. A further notice seeks comment on several additional rules, including the potential of distinguishing autodialer traffic, whether rules should be imposed on intermediate providers, and whether the safe harbor should be modified. The further notice also contemplates whether rural ILECs above a certain size should be required to report their terminating call answer rate data, and whether the commission should formally adopt rules “codifying existing prohibitions on blocking, choking, reducing or restricting traffic,” including VoIP-public switched telephone network traffic.