Sprint Communications Co. v. Bernsten

ORDER

JOHN A. JARVEY, Chief Judge, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

Mediacom has historically offered its customers the ability to make telephone calls over the Internet. That technology is called “Voice over Internet Protocol,” or VoIP. One difficulty with VoIP is that traffic sent over the internet is formatted differently than traffic sent over ordinary telephone lines.1 Without something to convert Internet formatting to telephone formatting, Mediacom’s customers could not call telephone users. Sprint Communications provided that conversion service. When a Mediacom customer placed a VoIP call,…