A group of 14 telecom manufacturers urged the FCC in a letter to ...
A group of 14 telecom manufacturers urged the FCC in a letter to deny AT&T’s prepaid calling card petition. The signatories expressed concern that granting the petition could “further harm an already beleaguered telecom manufacturing industry.” They said local…
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telephone companies were among the manufacturers’ largest customers: “If local phone revenues are decreased by several hundred million dollars per year because of unilateral refusal by some telecom carriers to pay the intrastate access and USF fees that existing regulatory policies require, the local telephone industry’s ability to finance plant modernization obviously would suffer even more damage than the massive amount of damage that already has occurred for a variety of reasons.”