Legal Opinion
CenturyTel of Chatham, LLC v. Sprint Communications Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2017No. 16-30634PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:
Regarding the amount Sprint Communications Company, L.P., was required to pay for the right to access the telephone-service subscribers of various local administrators (collectively, CenturyLink), primarily at issue is the proper application of the 1996 Telecommunications Act as applied by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Sprint partnered with cable companies to, inter alia, convert calls from Internet-based calling technology for delivery to CenturyLink customers with otherwise-incompatible traditional-format telephone services. Pursuant to…
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