Legal Opinion
MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. Bellsouth Telecommunications Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 26, 2002No. 00-13505PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Per curiam
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (“BellSouth”) and the Florida Public Service Commission (“FPSC”) appeal from the order of the district court reversing the FPSC’s arbitration decision governing the telecommunications access agreement between BellSouth and MCI Telecommunications Corporation 1 and MCImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc. 2 (collectively “MCI”). We affirm.
The 1996 federal Telecommunications Act requires incumbent local telephone exchange carriers to negotiate “interconnection agreements” with new, competitive local carriers. See 47 U.S.C. § 261(c)(2). Incumbent local…
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