Sprint Calls Automatic Data-Roaming Needed in Telecom's New Age

摘要

Adoption of automatic roaming rules for data is critical for the FCC to keep up with a changing ntelecom world, Sprint Nextel representatives said in a meeting with Wireless Bureau Chief nRuth Milkman and other officials. "As the Commission has observed, the communications nindustry is transitioning away from a traditional circuit-switched, voice-centric environment ntowards an IP broadband, datacentric environment," Sprint said in an ex parte filing. "The ncurrent FCC roaming regulatory regime, however, is still rooted in the legacy circuit switched nvoice environment."