Customers must be offered attractive calling plans. Local exchange carriers must recover their costs. Why not match price to usage, stimulate broadband adoption and compete on the strengths of underlying technologies and customer service? Local measured service (LMS) is a viable alternative to traditional regulatory pricing. Simply stated, LMS means that users pay a measured rate for network usage when originating and terminating calls. Once a family of LMS calling plans is established, the best per-minute retail rate offered among the plans is presumed to be a lawful, or "safe harbor," interconnection fee, chargeable to all other carriers using the local carrier's network.
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