(October 19) In meetings with the FCC, NTCA staff discussed the need for the agency to establish an Internet Protocol ("IP") interconnection framework that allows small companies to continue offering affordable and high-quality voice service. NTCA highlighted that its members are leaders in the IP transition are supportive of efforts to remove the barrier to end-to-end IP connectivity that today exists where larger operators have failed to upgrade their own time-division multiplexing ("TDM") networks.