Posts in 'Call Completion' Category

Call Completion Testing – A Resolution Is Needed!   ·   Post a comment

By Shirley Bloomfield - Last updated: Tuesday, April 10, 2012  ·  

There are a multitude of issues that are keeping rural telco managers awake at night, but one of them should NOT be whether calls placed into their rural markets actually get completed.  Being a test call participant myself in the national associations call completion effort, administered with NECA, I know personally that the problem is significant.  …View more

Filed in: At the FCC, Call Completion, Member Services

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Remaining Hopeful That FCC Call Completion Order Will Have Some Impact   ·   Post a comment

By Shirley Bloomfield - Last updated: Sunday, March 11, 2012  ·  

It’s been nearly a month since the FCC released their declaratory ruling that a carrier that knows or should know of traffic routing problems on its own or other router’s networks may be held directly liable for violation and subject to steep fines for those violations.  I think that the FCC stepped up to take  …View more

Filed in: At the FCC, Call Completion, Member Services

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Let’s Take Some Real Action on the Call Termination Problem   ·   Post a comment

By Shirley Bloomfield - Last updated: Friday, January 20, 2012  ·  

I was so heartened with the leadership that Senator Tim Johnson from South Dakota showed, along with 23 of his Senate colleagues, in asking the FCC to take some real action to deal with the call origination, routing and termination problem that has prevented the delivery of a growing number of calls to customers of  …View more

Filed in: At the FCC, Call Completion, On the Hill

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Foundation for Rural Service Weighs in on Call Completion Issue   ·   Post a comment

By Shirley Bloomfield - Last updated: Monday, January 9, 2012  ·  

I’ve been hearing from NTCA members all across the country on the issues that they have been experiencing with call completions in their markets.  Consumers do not understand the cause of the problem–that long distance providers or their underlying carriers looking for low cost routing options or simply a way to avoid terminating access are simply not  …View more

Filed in: At the FCC, Call Completion, Member Services

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