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The FCC should reform the intercarrier compensation system “as soon as practicable” and any transition period should be “as short as possible,” MetroPCS General Counsel Mark Stachiw said during a meeting with Wireline Bureau officials. The company also asked the…
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agency to put in place safeguards “to assure that traffic exchanged under existing reciprocal compensation arrangements, including de facto bill-and-keep arrangements, continues to be exchanged at rates no higher than the rates in place on the date that the National Broadband Plan was adopted,” said an ex parte filing. “MetroPCS also advocated that the Commission move at this time to a Report & Order based on the extensive record that has already been compiled rather than injecting additional delay into the process by seeking further comment.” Stachiw also met with Wireless Bureau officials to discuss spectrum proposals in the broadband plan, as well as “the critical need for additional paired spectrum to be offered in manageable spectrum block sizes and geographic areas to meet substantial unsatisfied needs” and the FCC’s proposal on incentive spectrum auctions.