Legal Opinion
Qwest Corp. v. Public Utilities Commission
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided March 5, 2007No. 06-1132, 06-4021PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PAUL KELLY, JR., Circuit Judge.
In these consolidated appeals, Plaintiff-Appellant Qwest Corporation asks us to determine whether it was obligated to seek state utility commission approval of a contract in which it agreed to provide MCImetro Access Transmission Services, LLC (“MCImetro”), with access to a service known as Qwest Platform Plus. The Public Utility Commission of Colorado and the Public Service Commission of Utah both independently determined that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“the Act”) — specifically, 47 U.S.C. § 252(a)(1)— required Qwest and MCImetro to submit their…
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