Chairman Pai's Response to Members of Congress Regarding the Intercarrier Compensation System

On September 25, 2019 a half dozen Members of Congress from Iowa wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai with concerns that changes to intercarrier compensation could have profound impacts to rural Iowa local exchange carriers (LECs). Chairman Pai replied on Dec 4 that the FCC adopted a Report and Order that 1) shifts the financial responsibility for paying certain access charges to the access-stimulating carriers that are responsible for generating them and 2) closed a loophole that allowed access-stimulating carriers to profit from high-volume calling even without using a revenue-sharing agreement.