Icore, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS.

STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

ICORE, Inc., is a consulting firm representing a consortium of local telephone companies. It and several such companies bring this petition for review to challenge a decision of the Federal Communications Commission as to how such phone companies are compensated for the interconnections they provide between their customers and providers of interstate long-distance telephone service.

The charges are based in one way or another on estimates of the local phone companies’ costs of providing the…