Legal Opinion
Puerto Rico Telephone Co. v. T-Mobile Puerto Rico LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 2, 2012No. 11-1504PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Chief Judge.
This case arises out of a dispute regarding the applicable billing rate for T-Mobile Puerto Rico LLC’s use of certain services provided by Puerto Rico Telephone Com pany, Inc. (PRTC), an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC). It requires us to address several issues under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (TCA), including what is meant by the term “discrimination.”
PRTC and T-Mobile entered into an interconnection agreement (ICA), pursuant to the TCA, in 1999, and into a second agreement in 2001. These agreements provided that certain “intrastate access” services would be…
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