Legal Opinion
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utility Commission of Texas
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 30, 2000No. 98-50787PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves a dispute between two interconnecting telephone companies (“carriers”) in the same local calling areas about whether modem calls placed by local customers of one carrier to the Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) customers of another carrier should be charged for as a “local” call. The contracts between the carriers that are parties to this appeal specify that local calls placed by customers of one carrier to customers of the other are to be “reciprocally compensated.” In the district court, Plaintiff-Appellant Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.…
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