The Illinois Public Telecommunications Association will petition the...
The Illinois Public Telecommunications Association will petition the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for a rehearing and also a rehearing en banc of its June 13 decision (http://1.usa.gov/1ltd6Bf) (docket 13-1059) in Illinois Public Telecommunications Association v. FCC,…
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IPTA attorney Michael Ward told us. The court upheld an FCC decision not to grant payphone service providers refunds from AT&T and Verizon (CD June 16 p9). The D.C. Circuit said it was not unreasonable or arbitrary for the FCC to permit refunds of charges that exceeded the cost-based rates mandated under Telecom Act Section 276, Ward noted in an email Friday. That puts the court at odds with previous 9th and 10th Circuit decisions that said the filed rate doctrine could not bar refunds of charges that exceeded the cost-based 276 Section rates, Ward said. The FCC did not immediately comment.