CenturyLink, Cox, Frontier, Windstream Lobby Carr, Others at FCC on IXC Traffic

Incumbent telcos lobbied FCC General Counsel Brendan Carr and others on the companies' position that interexchange carriers can't use tariffed access services and then seek refunds on grounds they routed intra-major trading area wireless traffic using such services to LECs. CenturyLink, Cox Communications, Frontier Communications and Windstream representatives noted in the ex parte filing posted Monday to docket 01-92 that a federal judge granted an LEC motion to dismiss Sprint and Verizon's federal claims in an intercarrier compensation fight between LECs and interexchange carriers over such wireline-wireless traffic (see 1511200070). The commission shouldn't take any action inconsistent with the ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, said the members of the LEC Coalition. The LECs also met with Wireline Bureau staff. Sprint and Level 3 asked the FCC to reiterate that long-distance companies (inter-exchange carriers) don't owe local phone access charges for wireline-wireless traffic (see 1605110056).