Only audio-bridging service providers supported petitions to reconsider and clarify a June order that would require Intercall and others in the industry to pay into universal service. Joining Intercall in support of the requests, Multi-Point Communications, another audio-conferencing provider, called the FCC order "procedurally defective," because the commission didn't give "appropriate notice and comment to the teleconferencing industry." The FCC provided 11 days to comment, and Multi-Point "was given only last-minute notice that it must adopt and implement procedures to fulfill its new [USF] obligations," it said. Verizon asked that the petition be rejected outright. "There are no grounds for reconsideration," the carrier said. The petitioners didn't take part in the original proceeding, they raise no new questions of law or fact and their arguments lack merit, it said. Others asked the FCC to clarify that the Intercall order changed no rules.
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