A federal court in Neb. stayed Qwest’s appeal of a Neb. PSC order...
A federal court in Neb. stayed Qwest’s appeal of a Neb. PSC order requiring that revenue from VoIP service be counted in calculating Qwest’s universal service fund assessments. The U.S. Dist. Court, Lincoln, granted a PSC request for the…
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stay. The PSC said Qwest also appealed the PSC order to the state courts alleging the PSC overreached its authority, and Qwest’s federal claims would be moot if the state courts ruled the PSC lacks authority to assess IP-enabled services. U.S. Dist. Judge Laurie Camp agreed. The case began early this year when the PSC ruled that Qwest was liable to pay universal service assessments on its VoIP revenue because it was a facilities-based VoIP provider. The PSC said VoIP competitors such as Vonage were exempt from assessments because their services used the public Internet.