Supreme Court Won't Hear Sprint VoIP Appeal
The Supreme Court won’t review a lower court ruling that federal law doesn't pre-empt state authority to regulate non-nomadic, intrastate long-distance VoIP calls (see 1711020033). The Supreme Court denied Sprint’s petition Monday in Sprint Communications v. Richard W. Lozier 16-1417.…
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The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had affirmed a district court ruling siding with an Iowa Utilities Board decision requiring Sprint to pay intrastate access fees to Windstream for VoIP service. Sprint, Windstream and the Iowa Board didn’t comment.