Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. New Mexico State Corp. Commission

OPINION

WALTERS, Justice.

The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, hereinafter Mountain Bell, petitioned the New Mexico State Corporation Commission (SCC) for a determination that its third-party billing and collection services were not subject to regulation by the SCC. Mountain Bell collects through a recording function its interexchange carrier customers’ use of long-distance lines belonging to other telephone companies and then bills and collects the fees for such long-distance service. Once Mountain Bell determines that users are delinquent in their long-distance service…