Embarq withdrew a forbearance petition asking the FCC to declare ...
Embarq withdrew a forbearance petition asking the FCC to declare that access fees apply to interconnected VoIP traffic. An FCC official told us the action wasn’t surprising, after the rejection last month of a FeatureGroup IP petition on the…
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subject (CD Jan 26 p4). A few months before Embarq filed, FeatureGroup asked for a ruling that access charges don’t apply to interconnected VoIP. Embarq’s filing seemed tactical, the FCC official said. Embarq may have decided after the FeatureGroup decision that its own petition was no longer useful, the official said. An Embarq spokesman declined to comment.