The California Public Utilities Commission supports the Pennsylvania...
The California Public Utilities Commission supports the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s request (http://bit.ly/1lA4BQX) for clarification on whether it may adjudicate intercarrier compensation disputes when they arise between CLECs outside of Telecom Act sections 251 and 252, the CPUC said in…
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a filing (http://bit.ly/Veam14) posted in docket 14-70 on Tuesday. The PUCs are seeking clarification in cases that involve the exchange of local dial-up ISP-bound traffic, the filing said. The Pennsylvania PUC petition is an “improper attempt to re-litigate issues that were already decided by a federal district court and currently are pending on appeal before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals,” AT&T said in a reply (http://bit.ly/1rZ0zqF). The Pennsylvania PUC petition challenges a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which enjoined the enforcement of two Pennsylvania PUC orders on Dec. 5, 2012, and Aug. 15, 2013. The orders had required two AT&T CLEC affiliates to pay another CLEC, Core Communications, for terminating phone calls originated when an AT&T customer dialed the local number of one of Core’s ISP customers, AT&T said.