traffic pumping

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traffic pumping

Routing calls from teleconferencing and phone sex providers through rural telephone companies in order to "pump up" traffic and receive extra revenue. As mandated in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, rural local exchange carriers (LECs) are allowed to charge high per-minute access fees to the larger regional and long distance carriers for handling calls. The statute was created to compensate rural carriers for their cost of deployment over vast distances in order to serve a small number of customers. However, this became a loophole for third parties to pass traffic through the networks and receive a share of the access fees.

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No references found			16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) board of directors passed a resolution supporting the FCC to expeditiously stop traffic pumping schemes, CTIA-The Wireless Association's President and CEO Steve Largent issued the following statement: (Logo: http://photos. CTIA-The Wireless Association Statement on NARUC's Action on Traffic ... by PR Newswire It can't be good for the environment either, what with the miles and miles of standstill traffic pumping out CO2. Letter: Your Say - Roadwork chaos; In association with POST OFFICE by Birmingham Mail (England) The group convened the next morning with a very informative briefing by Deputy Chief of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau Renee Crittendon, who addressed member questions regarding USF reform, broadband, intercarrier compensation, traffic pumping issues, interim CETC cap reverse auctions, local number portability and forbearance. NTCA's industry comittee convenes to take on regulatory issues by Pickle, Dorie / The Exchange			traffic aggregator Traffic and Railroad Signals traffic anomaly traffic board Traffic Chart traffic contract Traffic Control Traffic Control, Centralized traffic cop traffic deck surfacing traffic density traffic diagram traffic distribution traffic engineering traffic engineering methods traffic flow traffic flow security traffic forecast Traffic Interchange traffic island Traffic Marking traffic noise traffic paint traffic pattern traffic policing traffic pumping traffic recorder Traffic Regulation traffic shaping traffic signal traffic surge protection traffic topping Traffic Tunnel traffic warden traffic-circulation map Traffic-Control Communications Traffic-Control Panel Traffic-Control Station trafficability trafficable roof Trafford Trafford Leigh-Mallory TrafoLa Trafola-H tragacanth Tragacantha tragedian Tragedy Tragelaphini Trager, George Leonard Tragic, The			Traffic Monitoring System Traffic Network Planning Center Traffic Network Study Tool traffic noise traffic of commodities Traffic of influence traffic offence Traffic Operations and Management Standing Committee Traffic Operations Center Traffic Operations Program to Improve Capacity and Safety Traffic Operations System Traffic Operator Position System Traffic Optimisation by the Integration of Information and Control traffic paint Traffic Parameter Control traffic pattern traffic pattern Traffic Pattern Altitude traffic patterns traffic patterns Traffic Plane Function Traffic pole Traffic pole Traffic pole Traffic policing Traffic Processing System Traffic Program Traffic Protected Switch traffic pumping Traffic radar Traffic Reason Hand Over Traffic Received traffic recorder Traffic Records Electronic Data System traffic regulation Traffic Regulation Order Traffic Regulation Point Traffic regulations Traffic regulations Traffic regulations Traffic regulations Traffic Resource Manager Traffic Response and Incident Management Assisting the River Cities Traffic Response and Information Partnership Traffic return Traffic rotary Traffic Routing Traffic Routing Administration Traffic Routing and Distribution Traffic Routing System Traffic rules Traffic rules Traffic rules Traffic rules Traffic Safe Communities Network Traffic Safety Advisory Board Traffic Safety and Recreational Off-Duty Safety Program Traffic Safety Board Traffic Safety Committee

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