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 include phone numbers of Sprint’s customers in its printed phone directory. Sprint provides competitive local service in…
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Hutchinson’s territory through a retail partnership with a local cable company’s telecom affiliate, MCC Telephony, and said it expected to see its customers’ numbers in the local phone book. Sprint said Hutchinson and Hutchinson’s affiliated directory publisher Pinnacle told it that Sprint- MCC customer listings wouldn’t be included in the 2008 directory edition but gave no reason. Sprint said the exclusion was “clearly anticompetitive” and violated state and federal laws and PUC policies. It sought a PUC order requiring Hutchinson and Pinnacle to include Sprint-MCC customer numbers in the 2009 directory.