FCC Proposes Reforms to Eliminate Intercarrier Compensation Arbitrage
The Federal Communications Commission has long recognized that arbitrage opportunities in the intercarrier compensation (ICC) system harm consumers, undermine broadband deployment, and distort competition. Despite the FCC’s adoption of a national, default bill-and-keep framework as the ultimate end state for the exchange of all telecommunications traffic and its efforts to reduce wasteful arbitrage, a variety of arbitrage schemes continue to evolve and once again flourish.