Technologie i telekomunikacja · 24.03.1999

Inter-Carrier Compensation for ISP-bound Traffic.

On February 26, 1999, the Commission released a document in CC Docket No. 96-98 concluding that dial-up traffic bound for Internet service providers is largely interstate and thus subject to federal jurisdiction. The document also makes clear that parties are bound by their existing interconnection agreements, as construed by state commissions. Parties may have agreed that ISP-bound traffic should be subject to reciprocal compensation, or a state commission, in the exercise of its statutory authority to arbitrate interconnection disputes, may have imposed reciprocal compensation obligations for this traffic. In either case, parties are bound by their contracts.