A number of modified reporting requirements adopted by the FCC last fall in its mammoth decision overhauling the Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation system have now kicked in.… Continue Reading
Check it out: a semi-brief overview, from the wireless perspective, of the massive order overhauling the Universal Service Fund and Intercarrier Compensation system.… Continue Reading
Call me Ishmael! That's how the Commission might have opened its leviathan Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the proceeding to overhaul the Universal Service Fund.… Continue Reading
The FCC has adopted a framework by which to (a) reform and re-purpose the distribution of billions of dollars in Universal Service Fund money and (b) revise the financial arrangements governing the exchange of traffic between all categories of carriers.… Continue Reading
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step . . . and also (when it comes to overhauling the Universal Service Fund and Intercarrier Compensation regime) with a 229-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. We summarize that NPRM here.… Continue Reading
One of the problems which has long vexed the FCC is how to adapt the Universal Service Fund and Inter-Carrier Compensation regime to the world of the internet. The advent of broadband provides an opportunity to break the logjam in the context of a migration to all-digital, all-IP networks.… Continue Reading
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has upheld the Commission's Intermodal Number Portability order, but in so doing, the Court has signaled its impatience with the FCC's slow-motion deliberations in the related intercarrier compensation (ICC) proceeding.… Continue Reading
