Wireline Bureau Extends Inteliquent Waiver to Dec. 1

The FCC Wireline Bureau extended a waiver of access stimulation rules through Dec.1 for CLEC Inteliquent, said an order Thursday. COVID-19 caused a continued increase in traffic for conference-calling services Zoom and Cisco WebEx, which are Inteliquent customers, the order said. The bureau previously extended the waiver in June to Sept.1 (see 2006230015) but denied Inteliquent’s request to set the deadline to March, “given the ongoing uncertainty about how long the pandemic will continue to impact Inteliquent and its customers.” Granting Inteliquent’s waiver “in increments of three months has proven to be a workable and effective timeframe by which to closely monitor the effects of the pandemic on Inteliquent’s terminating-to-originating traffic ratios,” the order said.