FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s pledge to reform intercarrier compens...

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s pledge to reform intercarrier compensation within six months was news to at least two commissioners’ offices. An FCC lawyer announced the Martin-authorized promise in oral argument Monday at the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (CD May 6 p1). “We never thought Martin was that interested” in intercarrier compensation, one eighth floor source told us: “You learned about it when we learned about it.”