BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, LLC Et Al. v. COBB COUNTY Et Al.

Ray, Judge.

Defendants BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC, and Earth-link, Inc., Earthlink, LLC, Deltacom, LLC, and Business Telecomm, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”), filed this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denials of their motions to dismiss the complaints by Cobb County and Gwinnett County (collectively, the “Counties”) regarding the Defendants’ alleged violations of the Georgia Emergency Telephone Number 9-1-1 Service Act of 1977, OCGA § 46-5-120 et seq. (the “9-1-1 Act”).1 The 9-1-1 Act requires telephone customers to pay a monthly charge to the telephone companies, which…