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Powell Rips FCC Delay on Connection Fee Reform

Jack Decker (jack-yahoogroups@withheld)
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:56:33 -0500

http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3482361

February 10, 2005
Powell Rips FCC Delay on Connection Fee Reform
By Roy Mark

WASHINGTON -- Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael
Powell warned his fellow commissioners today that they would
eventually regret Thursday's FCC decision to further study
intercarrier compensation reform.

After reviewing the issue for the last four years, the FCC is now
seeking comment on seven reform proposals submitted to the agency by
various telecom industry groups and alliances. Given the FCC's
rulemaking procedures, any final decision made on the proposals is
probably months away at best.

Powell and Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy bluntly said the time had
come for action, not more study.

"Today, we act as timidly as ever in the name of dialogue and
process," said Powell, who announced his resignation last month. "If
you're looking for bold action, you're certainly not going to find it
here."

The emergence of IP-based communications over the last three years,
most notably Voice over IP (define), has put the FCC in a quandary
over how to fit 21st-century technologies into a 70-year-old structure
originally designed to regulate the then publicly owned telephone
system.

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