ic-Gradually Being Reduced Intercarrier Compensation (ICC) are federally mandated fees for interstate calls and state-mandated fees for intrastate calls. When a college student called his parents who lived in another telephone company's territory, the student's phone company paid an ICC (Intercarrier Compensation) fee to the other telephone company for connecting the call. These fees are gradually being reduced and rural carriers are instead receiving subsidies to build out their infrastructure. There are two types of access fees: originating access fees and terminating access fees. They apply to mobile, wireline, and interconnected VoIP traffic. Interconnected VoIP calls are those made to people on the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). The PSTN is an older network architecture for home telephones connected directly to older telephone company switches, not part of data networks. The following are examples of originating terminating and access fees. Originating access fees are paid by phone companies whose customers lease toll-free numbers. A subscriber on a different carrier's network calls a toll-free (800- 888) number that belongs to another carrier's subscriber. A person places a VoIP call to a toll-free number connected to someone on the PSTN. Terminating access fees. A person whose phone is connected to the PSTN calls someone on another carrier's network. . A person places a VoIP call to someone on the PSTN. Access fees paid to carriers in rural, high-cost areas are set higher than those in urban areas. Moreover, intrastate access fees, which are set by states, are www.TechnicalPDF.com generally higher than interstate access fees. Access fee rates for local calls are minimal. The FCC's November 2011 Transformation Order laid out a plan for reducing ICC fees. Terminating access fees, at the receiving telephone company, have been reduced dramatically over the last 7 years, from several cents per minute down to $0.007 cents per minute-and even going to zero in most cases by July 2019. To make up for the