Verizon Seeks Flexible FCC Rural Calling Service Quality Standards, Access Stimulation Action
Verizon urged flexible FCC service quality standards for intermediate providers and elimination of data recording and retention requirements in implementing a 2017 rural call quality act. Several "intercarrier compensation proceedings are ripe for decision," with an access stimulation NPRM "the…
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most relevant to rural call completion," said a filing on a meeting with Wireline Bureau staffers, posted Wednesday in docket 13-39. "Completing intercarrier compensation reform -- and in particular moving terminating transit and tandem charges to bill-and-keep -- should reduce or eliminate the financial incentives the Commission has identified." While the current access stimulation definition "may leave some room for improvement, the Commission does not have to revise" it to address tandem and transit access stimulation, Verizon said. It said it received eight rural call completion complaints in 2018 vs. 25 in 2015, and determined none of this year's was a "true rural call completion issue."