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The FCC should “clarify” that IP interconnection with...

The FCC should “clarify” that IP interconnection with incumbent local exchange carriers for managed VoIP service is governed by Section 251 of the Communications Act, Cablevision and Charter officials told FCC Acting General Counsel Jon Sallet Tuesday, an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1pk3Gs7). “ILECs are currently unwilling to provide IP interconnection on commercially reasonable terms (if at all),” they said. “Because the inability to obtain IP interconnection harms competition and is a significant barrier to the industry-wide transition to IP facilities, we ask the Commission to move expeditiously in clarifying ILECs’ IP interconnection obligations.”