Traffic pumping

Traffic pumping, also known as access stimulation, is a controversial practice by which some local exchange telephone carriers in rural areas of the United States inflate the volume of incoming calls to their networks over what would naturally occur, and profit from the greatly increased intercarrier compensation fees to which they are entitled by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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