An appeals court declined to overrule a Mississippi Public Service...
An appeals court declined to overrule a Mississippi Public Service Commission interpretation of an interconnection agreement (ICA) between two local telcos. “It is binding law in this circuit that a federal court reviews a state utility commission’s interpretation of an…
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ICA under an arbitrary and capricious standard,” the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/103filG). Dixie-Net Communications and AT&T Mississippi had differing interpretations of their 2007 ICA, and the MPSC had determined that AT&T was not required to pay intrastate switched access fees to Dixie-Net for those calls (http://bit.ly/14ay14f). The circuit court agreed with a lower court’s finding that MPSC’s ruling was not arbitrary and capricious.