FCC to decide what wireless carriers must pay for transport. (News).

RCR Wireless News, January, 2003 by Weaver, Heather Forsgren

WASHINGTON-Lost in the growing debate about whether the Federal Communications Commission should relax the rules requiring incumbent local exchange carriers to lease portions of their networks at specific rates is a second debate about what ILECs should charge wireless carriers for transporting communications from the cell site to the mobile switching center,

AT&T Wireless Services Inc. is leading the charge to have the FCC declare that ILECs are required to charge wireless carriers the same amount they charge landline competitors instead of the "special access charge" they currently charge. Sprint PCS, which has joined in the fight, estimates that special access charges are double that of "Telric" pricing--the regulated price ILECs must charge CLECs....

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