Wireless

摘要

CTIA took issue with arguments the Independent Telephone & Telecommunications Alliancenmade last week (http://bit.ly/11UtL9x) that wireless and wireline voice services should be lumped into ansingle interstate telecommunications service provider (ITSP) category for assessing regulatory fees, in anletter to the FCC. “First, it is undisputed that the wireless industry supports a greater portion of the Commission’snbudget than any other industry segment, including wireline carriers,” CTIA said in an ex partenfiling posted by the FCC Tuesday (http://bit.ly/1aqA44J). “Second, ITTA’s reliance on the Commission’sndecision to include interconnected VoIP providers in the ITSP regulatory fee is also misguided and uninformed. Prior to that decision, interconnected VoIP providers were not subject to any regulatory fees —nunlike wireless regulatees who have been paying regulatory fees since their inception. In fact, wirelessnregulatees that provide interconnected VoIP service also separately pay ITSP regulatory fees based uponntheir VoIP end user revenues.”