CenturyLink Calls Verizon, AT&T Proposed VoIP Fee Distinctions 'Unworkable'
CenturyLink criticized rivals' intercarrier compensation proposals regarding treatment of certain VoIP traffic. "Verizon’s and AT&T’s proposed distinctions are unworkable for many forms of modern network traffic, and require fine distinctions that Verizon and AT&T (and any other carrier) cannot implement,"…
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CenturyLink filed, posted Monday on meeting FCC Wireline Bureau staffers in docket 01-92. "The interpretation that Verizon suggests is both unworkable and yields arbitrary results. It is fundamentally inconsistent with the Commission’s objectives in [a 2011] Transformation Order’s VoIP provisions, which was to establish a uniform regime for VoIP access charges that would reduce unproductive litigation and disputes." CenturyLink referred to its March 4 and Dec. 6 letters providing more details. Verizon and AT&T didn't comment.