Legal Opinion
Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Doing Business as Ameritech Illinois v. Worldcom Technologies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 23, 1998No. 98-3150PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Local telecommunications carriers must provide reciprocal compensation for local calls that use each other’s networks. 47 U.S.C. § 251(b)(5). If a subscriber of Company A calls a subscriber of Company B, then A must share with B some of the revenues A collects from its subscriber, to compensate B for the use of its facilities. Like many other provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this requirement is enforced by state agencies — in Illinois, by the Illinois Commerce Commission. Decisions of state agencies implementing the 1996 Act are reviewable in…
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