FCC denied complaint filed by Total Telecommunications Services (...
FCC denied complaint filed by Total Telecommunications Services (Total) and Atlas Telephone against AT&T. Commission said provisions of Communications Act cited by Total and Atlas didn’t prohibit AT&T from refusing to purchase terminating access services from Total or from…
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blocking calls from AT&T customers to sole end-user customer to which Total terminated traffic. Agency then granted AT&T’s claim that 2 companies engaged in “unreasonable scheme to inflate the access fees charged to AT&T.” FCC concluded that Atlas created Total “as a sham entity designed to impose increased access charges on calls made to Audiobridge,” Total’s only customer. Audiobridge provides customers multiple voice-bridging service commonly known as chat-line service.