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Great Lakes Communication Says FCC Access Stimulation Order Would Slow Voice Traffic

If an FCC access stimulation order isn't stayed, it will cause interexchange carriers to "immediately shift their traffic routing and call flows to older, lower-capacity tariffed routes to take advantage of the free service the commission intends to give them,"…

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said the petitioner in reply comments Wednesday in Great Lakes Communication v. FCC, case 19-1233 (in Pacer) before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It said "traffic will suddenly be forced onto routes that are not engineered to handle the traffic volumes" and would cause "significant traffic disruptions, impacting all types of calls routed to the Iowa or South Dakota" centralized equal access providers.