Great Lakes Communications said it gave the Iowa Utilities Board ...
Great Lakes Communications said it gave the Iowa Utilities Board plenty of notice before getting a temporary restraining order from the U.S. District Court in Sioux City, Iowa (CD Nov 6 p14). Qwest said Great Lakes gave the board…
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no notice of the order, which stopped Neustar, the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, from reclaiming all blocks of telephone numbers assigned to Great Lakes. “Both the Iowa Utilities Board and Neustar, Inc. were given ample notice of Great Lakes’s Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order,” Great Lakes told the FCC by letter Monday. The carrier also criticized a Qwest filing asking the commission to turn around quickly a reconsideration order, circulating around the eighth floor in draft, related to a dispute between Qwest and Farmers and Merchants Mutual Telephone (CD Nov 24 p13). Qwest said the decision would be significant to the district court case in Iowa, but Great Lakes said “that hope is misplaced.” The FCC’s first order on the Qwest-Farmers dispute “is final and binding federal authority as it relates to the Commission’s tariff-based holdings and analysis.” Section 405 of the Communications Act requires the commission to resolve substantive reconsideration of a tariff dispute within 90 days, but it’s been over a year since the FCC allowed Qwest to file a supplemental petition for reconsideration, Great Lakes said. “If the Commission were intending to overturn its prior decision, Section 405 required it to do so in August 2008.”