Oncor Communications v. State of New York

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mercure, J.

For each telephone line, the telephone service subscriber is entitled to designate the primary interexchange carrier (hereinafter PIC), i.e., the long distance carrier to whom a call is routed when the user dials "1” or accesses the operator service by dialing "0”. Absent a subscriber’s express written prohibition, local telephone companies are permitted to change the PIC for a particular telephone line on the unverified notification of the purported newly designated PIC, thereby providing fertile ground for the practice of unauthorized substitution, known as…