Poka Lambro Acquiring TDS' VoIP Customer Base

Poka Lambro Telecom will acquire TDS Broadband Service's telephone subscriber base, it told the FCC in a letter Friday (docket 00-257). The company said it will continue providing interconnected VoIP service to TDS customers. Poka Lambro noted that the FCC "has not determined" whether interconnected VoIP services are telecom services or "ruled that its carrier change rules apply to interconnected VoIP services." The anticipated date of transfer will be Oct. 1 "or as soon thereafter as the necessary arrangements are in place," Poka Lambro said.