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CenturyLink opposed an application by Iowa Network Services...

CenturyLink opposed an application by Iowa Network Services to do a service-based time-division multiplexing-to-IP transition experiment. The INS application seeks to resolve legal and policy questions arising from the technology transitions, which is exactly what the FCC cautions it is…

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not seeking from experiments, CenturyLink said in a filing posted Monday (http://bit.ly/1ixJrEv). INS “ignores the requirement” that experiments maintain the intercarrier compensation (ICC) “status quo ante,” which means that traffic included in the trial “be subject to the same ICC rights and obligations that applied immediately before the experiment,” CenturyLink said. “The central focus of the INS proposal appears to be to try and extend the existing legacy ICC regulatory framework, including underlying requirements such as equal access, to new all-IP network functionality and networks where they do not apply today,” the ILEC said.