The FCC should “take concrete steps to bring...
The FCC should “take concrete steps to bring intermediate providers out of the shadows and into full light,” while the Office of Management and Budget completes its Paperwork Reduction Act review and approves the information collection and record-keeping requirements in…
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the commission’s rural call completion order, representatives from NTCA and the National Exchange Carriers Association told agency staff July 24, said an ex parte notice (http://bit.ly/1uDB1Eq) posted in docket 13-39 Tuesday. The rural representatives met with staff including Daniel Alvarez, wireline aide to Chairman Tom Wheeler, and Terry Cavanaugh, chief of the Enforcement Bureau Investigations and Hearings Division. Calls continue to fail to reach rural areas at an alarming rate, NTCA and NECA told the FCC. As proposed in the Further NPRM, the FCC should require every provider in control of call routing to register with the agency “and certify that it does not engage in the blocking or restricting of calls to rural areas or that it strips or modifies call detail information,” the groups said in the notice. The providers would also certify that they have in place processes to monitor performance and that they route calls only to other certified intermediate providers or directly to terminating local exchange carriers, the groups said. The commission should also “create a carrier contact list so that other carriers experiencing call completion problems know whom to contact at the originating carrier for resolution,” the notice said.