JOINT BOARD ASKS FCC NOT TO SHUNT STATES ASIDE FOR TRIPLE-OH-SEVEN

摘要

The Federal-State Joint Board on Separations asked the FCC commissioners not to preempt state control of intrastate rates. A letter from the board urged the FCC to reject Verizon's proposal to set a $0.0007 terminating access rate for all traffic. The suggested rate is "divorced from costs and separations outcomes" and will "distort competitive markets, send false price signals and lead to uneconomic investment decisions," the board said. State members also contested Verizon's argument that a uniform rate would better reflect present and future technology. "Circuit based networks and non-nomadic VoIP continue to be generally distinguishable between the intrastate and interstate jurisdictions," state members said. "Further, we disagree with... the concept that the FCC should base fundamental changes affecting state preemption and jurisdictional separations on a speculative projection of network evolution and the possibility that some time in the future the majority of traffic will become jurisdictionally inseverable," they said.