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MPower and North County Communications asked U.S. Appeals Court, ...

MPower and North County Communications asked U.S. Appeals Court, D.C. for emergency stay of FCC’s CLEC access charge order. Companies asked court to act on stay by June 29 because order “imposed immediate and drastic rate reductions for [CLECs],…

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resulting in revenue shortfalls of millions of dollars each year.” MPower told court that FCC had instructed it not to file stay at agency but instead to file ex parte letter, “creating the expectation that the FCC would act… to stay unworkable portions of the order.” When FCC didn’t act on MPower’s May 25 ex parte letter, company filed for stay June 18 and said no action had occurred on either filing yet.