Legal Opinion
Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 17, 2007No. 05-705PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
The Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) has established rules that require long-distance (and certain other) communications carriers to compensate a payphone operator when a caller uses a payphone to obtain free access to the carrier’s lines (by dialing, e. g., a 1-800 number or other access code). The Commission has added that a carrier’s refusal to pay the compensation is a “practice . . . that is unjust or unreasonable” within the terms of the Communications Act of 1934, § 201(b), 48 Stat. 1070, 47 U. S. C. § 201(b). Communications Act language links § 201(b) to § 207,…
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