A recent Kansas House bill proposing to restrict state regulation...
A recent Kansas House bill proposing to restrict state regulation of IP (CD Feb 20 p5) was not a direct reaction to a January ruling of the Kansas Corporation Commission, Pioneer Communications CEO Catherine Moyer told us. “AT&T is the…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
initial author of the bill,” she said. “This is something they had been aiming to do for a long time.” AT&T circulated a draft of the bill text among other companies in Kansas for months before it was introduced, she said, referring to such telecom coalition activity as more common in recent years. Few changes occurred along the way and some parties are still making friendly amendments to clarify language in places, but the consensus is that it'll pass through the Kansas Legislature easily enough, she said. The proposed law would potentially have prevented the Kansas Corporation Commission ruling, which asserted authority over fixed interconnected VoIP, and would likely have a bearing on that ruling if it passes into law, but the timing is coincidental, she said.