Court says VoIP carriers must pay into the USF
Here’s some late Friday news you might have missed. A Federal appeals courts says that VoIP carriers that connect to the PSTN do have to pay into the FCC’s Universal Service Fund. Vonage had challenged last year’s FCC ruling to that effect, saying the commission overstepped its authority and set the fee unfairly high. But the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which hears most regulatory appeals, thought otherwise on both counts. Although the court found that the FCC’s computation of VoIP carriers’ contribution wasn’t perfect, “perfection…is not what the law requires.” Now there’s a quote for a needlepoint pillow.
For more about the USF:
- read this article from Internet News
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