A federal appeals court ruled the Mo. PSC correctly read U.S. law...
A federal appeals court ruled the Mo. PSC correctly read U.S. law when it decided a group of rural incumbent telcos owe reciprocal compensation, not access charges, to a wireless carrier on local landline-to-mobile calls routed through a 3rd-party…
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interexchange carrier. The 8th U.S. Appeals Court, St. Louis, affirmed a lower court ruling upholding the PSC decision on a dispute between T-Mobile and 4 rural incumbent telcos. The 8th Circuit (Case 06-2401) said the FCC’s Local Competition Order and prior decisions by the 8th and 10th Circuits were clear in declaring that a phone call originating and terminating within the same wireless major trading area was a local call, regardless of how it was carried between the originating and terminating points: “We are bound by circuit precedent to hold that calls from a land line to a cellphone placed and received within the same major trading area are local calls, subject to reciprocal compensation arrangements” under the Telecom Act, with no exception in law or regulation for traffic connected through an IXC.