FCC Denies Level 3 Complaint Against AT&T
The full FCC unanimously denied a complaint from Level 3 against AT&T over intercarrier compensation rules, said an order in Monday’s Daily Digest. Level 3, now part of CenturyLink, accused AT&T of assessing a required $.0007 per-minute tandem switched transport…
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access service rate only when “tandem switching and transport traffic terminates to an AT&T Price Cap Carrier end office but not when such traffic terminates to the end office or equivalent facility of an AT&T affiliate that is not itself a price cap carrier.” The FCC said the rate applies only to traffic that terminates at a price-cap carrier end office: “The most reasonable reading of the rule, in context, is that the 'terminating carrier' must be a price cap carrier. We therefore disagree with Level 3’s assertion that the 'terminating carrier' can be a non-price cap carrier such as a CMRS or VoIP affiliate of AT&T.” Level 3 didn't comment.