Telecom Groups, Companies Withdraw Emergency Petition for Waiver from 2014

Telecom groups withdrew a 2014 emergency petition for waiver, said a filing posted Friday in docket 10-90. Parties are NTCA, WTA, NECA, Eastern Rural Telecom Association, Frontier Communications and Windstream. They had asked for a pause in intercarrier compensation rates for originating intrastate toll VoIP traffic "until full implementation of Connect America Fund phase II" (see 1407090083). "With five-plus years having passed now and those universal service reforms having been put into effect in the intervening period, the request was somewhat moot," emailed an NTCA spokesperson.