FCC Tees Up Comcast Request for Partial Waiver of Rural Call Completion Data Duty
The FCC invited input on a Comcast bid for a recordkeeping and reporting waiver under a 2013 rural call completion order, with comments due Sept. 26, replies Oct. 5. Comcast requested a partial waiver of its "obligation to report, record,…
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and retain the call completion information" for certain rural and non-rural enterprise customers for the period through June, said a Wireline Bureau public notice in docket 13-39 listed in Friday's Daily Digest. Comcast has been migrating its business VoIP service to a new IP multimedia system switching platform, but some enterprise customers are still served by legacy soft switches, and company engineers inadvertently didn't capture call detail record data for certain customers due to the network complexity, said the company's Sept. 9 petition. Comcast said its Form 480 reports provide an accurate measure of its rural and nonrual call competition performance because the only likely impact of the omitted data was that the reports reflected lower call volumes. Including omitted pre-July data it recovered from one affected system didn't materially change Comcast's overall call performance metrics, and all omitted data from July have now been recovered and further confirm the performance, it said.