Sprint Communications complained to the Minnesota Public Utilitie...
Sprint Communications complained to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission that incumbent Hutchinson Telephone has breached the companies’ interconnection agreement by refusing to put Sprint customers’ numbers in its print directory. Sprint, which offers competitive local service in Hutchinson territory…
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via a retail partnership with MCC Telephony, a local cable company’s telecom affiliate, expected customers’ numbers to be in the local directory, it said. Sprint said Hutchinson and Hutchinson’s affiliated directory publisher Pinnacle told it that Sprint-MCC customer listings wouldn’t appear in the 2008 directory edition but gave no reason. Sprint said the exclusion, “clearly anticompetitive,” violates federal and state laws and PUC policy. It sought a PUC order requiring Hutchinson and Pinnacle to include Sprint-MCC customer numbers in the 2009 directory.