Court Denies Motion to Stay Access Arbitrage Order
US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order denying motion for stay of the FCC's Access Arbitrage order. That order adopted rules aimed at eliminating the financial incentives to engage in access stimulation. Under the new rules, a CLEC will be considered an access stimulator if it has an interstate terminating-to-originating traffic ratio of at least 6:1 in an end office in a calendar month. If a CLEC is engaged in access stimulation it may not bill an IXC for terminating switched access tandem switching or terminating switched access transport for any traffic between its terminating end office (or equivalent) and the associated access tandem switch.
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