Posted by Sharon Thomas
White Label VoIP Programs: Regulatory Fiction and Fact
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs are everywhere. As advertised, they offer a relatively easy, low-cost way for companies to profit from the growing market for VoIP services. Companies with an IP business customer base are enticed to grow their business by adding voice to their existing product mix.
Read MoreTopics: FCC Form 499, Interconnected VoIP, FCC Form 499 A & Q, White Label VoIP programs, Wholesale VoIP, Retail VoIP, Missed Filing Penalties
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs have exploded in recent years. For those of us who have been around for a while, it brings back memories of the long-distance reseller partner programs that proliferated in the ‘90s.
Read MoreTopics: VoIP regulation, FCC Form 499, VoIP White Label partnering programs, Interconnected VoIP, wholesale provider regulatory obligation, White Label VoIP programs
Posted by Sharon Thomas
The FCC recently issued an order (Order) that reinforced the obligation of resellers to make direct contributions to the Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF).
Read MoreTopics: USAC, Wireline Competition Bureau, FUSF double payments, resellers, wholesale carriers, de minimus exemption, 2012 Wholesaler-Reseller Clarification Order, Home Page
Many interconnected VoIP providers have historically calculated their interstate revenues based on the FCC's VoIP "safe harbor" of 64.9%.
Read MoreTopics: Interconnected VoIP, Safe Harbor vs. Traffic Study, interstate revenues, FCC Form 499 A & Q, international revenues
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs (what I call "VoIP-In-A-Box") are growing in popularity. As advertised, they offer a relatively easy, low-cost way for companies to profit from the growing market for VoIP services.
Read MoreTopics: broadband, featured post, form 477, 477 reporting, Technologies Management, Inc.
Posted by Sharon Thomas
In response to an inquiry from TMI, the FCC provide the following clarification regarding the customer thresholds for the Best Efforts Business Broadband Internet Service Provider questions contained in the Special Access Data Collection:
Topics: FCC, broadband, special access
Posted by Sharon Thomas
AT&T, Bandwidth.com, Inc. and Vonage Holdings, Corp. each submitted comments last week in response to the FCC Wireline Competition Bureau's (WCB) January 31 report regarding the results of the VoIP numbering trials. (See TMI previous Blog Postings Update on VoIP Numbering Trial: War of Words Continues; and The Regulatory Mix – Tuesday, February 4, 2014). The WCB report found that the trials demonstrated the technical feasibility for interconnected VoIP providers to obtain telephone numbers directly from the numbering administrators and did not identify technical problems regarding number exhaust, number porting, VoIP interconnection, or intercarrier compensation. However, the report noted that some carrier disputes arose regarding interconnection and porting that caused some issues during the trials.
Topics: FCC, VoIP, numbering trial
I blogged a little poem in early December about the telecom industry's anxious anticipation of an FCC order adopting new 2014 Federal USF exemption certificate language. (See 'Twas Weeks Before New Year's, posted December 6, 2013.) Well, the FCC staff apparently did not stay up late to craft new language before the New Year. As we continue to wait for an FCC order approving the 2014 499A instructions with new exemption certificate language, many carriers have decided that they cannot continue to delay and are sending out 2014 certificates in advance of a final order. Not surprising, considering the implications for carrier billing and compliance.
Topics: exemption certificates, USF, FCC Forms, featured post
Posted by Sharon Thomas
White Label VoIP Programs: Regulatory Fiction and Fact
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs are everywhere. As advertised, they offer a relatively easy, low-cost way for companies to profit from the growing market for VoIP services. Companies with an IP business customer base are enticed to grow their business by adding voice to their existing product mix.
Read MoreTopics: FCC Form 499, Interconnected VoIP, FCC Form 499 A & Q, White Label VoIP programs, Wholesale VoIP, Retail VoIP, Missed Filing Penalties
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs have exploded in recent years. For those of us who have been around for a while, it brings back memories of the long-distance reseller partner programs that proliferated in the ‘90s.
Read MoreTopics: VoIP regulation, FCC Form 499, VoIP White Label partnering programs, Interconnected VoIP, wholesale provider regulatory obligation, White Label VoIP programs
Posted by Sharon Thomas
The FCC recently issued an order (Order) that reinforced the obligation of resellers to make direct contributions to the Federal Universal Service Fund (FUSF).
Read MoreTopics: USAC, Wireline Competition Bureau, FUSF double payments, resellers, wholesale carriers, de minimus exemption, 2012 Wholesaler-Reseller Clarification Order, Home Page
Many interconnected VoIP providers have historically calculated their interstate revenues based on the FCC's VoIP "safe harbor" of 64.9%.
Read MoreTopics: Interconnected VoIP, Safe Harbor vs. Traffic Study, interstate revenues, FCC Form 499 A & Q, international revenues
"White Label" interconnected VoIP partner programs (what I call "VoIP-In-A-Box") are growing in popularity. As advertised, they offer a relatively easy, low-cost way for companies to profit from the growing market for VoIP services.
Read MoreTopics: broadband, featured post, form 477, 477 reporting, Technologies Management, Inc.
Posted by Sharon Thomas
In response to an inquiry from TMI, the FCC provide the following clarification regarding the customer thresholds for the Best Efforts Business Broadband Internet Service Provider questions contained in the Special Access Data Collection:
Topics: FCC, broadband, special access
Posted by Sharon Thomas
AT&T, Bandwidth.com, Inc. and Vonage Holdings, Corp. each submitted comments last week in response to the FCC Wireline Competition Bureau's (WCB) January 31 report regarding the results of the VoIP numbering trials. (See TMI previous Blog Postings Update on VoIP Numbering Trial: War of Words Continues; and The Regulatory Mix – Tuesday, February 4, 2014). The WCB report found that the trials demonstrated the technical feasibility for interconnected VoIP providers to obtain telephone numbers directly from the numbering administrators and did not identify technical problems regarding number exhaust, number porting, VoIP interconnection, or intercarrier compensation. However, the report noted that some carrier disputes arose regarding interconnection and porting that caused some issues during the trials.
Topics: FCC, VoIP, numbering trial
I blogged a little poem in early December about the telecom industry's anxious anticipation of an FCC order adopting new 2014 Federal USF exemption certificate language. (See 'Twas Weeks Before New Year's, posted December 6, 2013.) Well, the FCC staff apparently did not stay up late to craft new language before the New Year. As we continue to wait for an FCC order approving the 2014 499A instructions with new exemption certificate language, many carriers have decided that they cannot continue to delay and are sending out 2014 certificates in advance of a final order. Not surprising, considering the implications for carrier billing and compliance.
Topics: exemption certificates, USF, FCC Forms, featured post
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