Core Proposed Tariff Revisions Rejected

Core Communications’ proposed tariff revisions “violate many of the same rules that the commission found Core’s previous tariff revisions violated,” said an FCC Wireline Bureau order listed in Wednesday’s Daily Digest rejecting the proposed revisions “in their entirety” (see 2110070066). The proposed revisions are “unlawful on their face,” the order said, granting AT&T and Verizon's petition requesting the bureau investigate and reject or suspend the proposed revisions (see 2105070066). Core was ordered to file a supplement within five business days "noting that this proposed transmittal was rejected in its entirety." Core "has again been frustrated from lawful methods to collect fees rightly owed to it," said CEO Bret Mingo in a statement, with italics: "For years, AT&T and Verizon have wrongfully withheld millions in fees from Core on compensable call traffic Core carries -- traffic for which AT&T and Verizon have unapologetically charged their customers tens of millions of dollars." Mingo said the FCC "has not allowed Core to revise its tariff to hold these long distance carrier behemoths’ feet to the fire on paying Core for fees it rightfully charged.”