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"But whether providers of VoIP services, such as Inflexion Communications Inc., should be subject to economic regulation is an entirely separate question from whether they should compensate local exchange carriers like Verizon for the use of the public switched telephone network," Verizon said. "Under the Commission's existing precedents, access charges clearly apply to VoIP traffic that uses the PSTN."
The National Telecommunications Cooperative Association said the petition was "a misguided attempt to avoid the payment of lawful intrastate and interstate access charges." NTCA added that granting the petition would "impose a significant and rapidly growing cost burden on ILECs and prevent ILECs from recovering these costs from cost-causing VoIP providers, such as Inflexion."