LEC Coalition Makes Case for Relief It Seeks on Fight Over IntraMTA Rules
Representatives from a group of LECs met with FCC officials to make their case on an intercarrier compensation fight (see 1505190056) between LECs and interexchange carriers (IXCs) over “intraMTA” (major trading area) wireline-wireless traffic. The meeting focused on the petition…
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for declaratory ruling and reply comments filed by the LEC coalition in the proceeding, said a filing posted Friday in docket 10-90. The FCC’s intraMTA rule “entitles wireless carriers to enter into reciprocal compensation arrangements for the exchange of LEC-CMRS [Commercial Mobile Radio Services] traffic but has no application to traffic exchanged between LECs and interexchange carriers over switched access trunks,” the LECs said. “We emphasized that the ‘intraMTA’ nature of traffic is not -- and never has been -- the sole factor in determining the type of compensation owed when it is exchanged by carriers.” The LECs said the relief they seek “would be consistent with longstanding industry practice, Commission and judicial precedent, and the public interest.” The LECs included Bright House Networks, CenturyLink, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable and Windstream; BHN and TWC are being bought by Charter Communications.