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2000 CIS H 27167
TITLE: Exempt from
Reciprocal Compensation Requirements Telecommunications Traffic to the Internet
CIS-NO: 2000-H271-67
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 22, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+79 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-134
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-134. Hearing before the Subcom on
Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection to consider H.R. 4445, the
Reciprocal Compensation Adjustment Act of 2000, to exempt local exchange
carriers from reciprocal compensation payment requirements for the transport or
termination of telecommunications to the Internet or any Internet access service
provider.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996
required all local exchange carriers to establish reciprocal compensation
arrangements with competitive carriers for the costs incurred during delivery of
a local call that originates on the network of another carrier. H.R. 4445 would
confirm that Internet service providers are interstate, not local, and therefore
exempt from reciprocal compensation requirements.
Supplementary
material (p. 69-79) includes a submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Telecommunications carriers
reciprocal compensation requirements revision
BILLS: 106
H.R. 4445
DESCRIPTORS:
TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE
INDUSTRY; COMPETITION; INTERSTATE COMMERCE; RECIPROCAL COMPENSATION ADJUSTMENT
ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
00-H271-67 TESTIMONY NO: 1
June 22, 2000 p. 16-68
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
STRICKLING, LAWRENCE E. (Chief, Common Carrier
Bureau, FCC)
TAUKE, THOMAS J. (Executive Vice President,
External Affairs and Corporate Communications, Bell Atlantic; representing U.S.
Telecom Association)
SMITH, JOAN (Chairman,
Telecommunications Committee, National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners)
BLOSSMAN, JAY A., JR. (Commissioner,
Louisiana Public Service Commission)
STRUMINGHER, ERIC
(Managing Director, Research, PaineWebber Inc)
KISSINGER,
CHAD (President, On Ramp Access, Inc)
TAYLOR, ROBERT
(President and CEO, Focal Communications; also representing Association for
Local Telecommunications Services)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Conflicting views on H.R. 4445; anticipated effects of
H.R. 4445; issues related to Internet service providers and reciprocal
compensation requirements.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Telecommunications carriers reciprocal compensation
requirements revision
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
U.S. TELECOM ASSOCIATION; FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
