Autotel v. Qwest

I concur with the majority in every respect except one.

The magistrate judge rejected Autotel’s argument that it should be given access to Qwest’s network, which spans two Local Access Transport Areas (“LATAs”), via a single point of interconnection. She reasoned that there was no authority that would require Qwest to reconfigure its network so as to allow transport of local traffic between the two LATAs. There was on the other hand no authority that required the judge to rule in Qwest’s favor, where such an interconnection was technically feasible.

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