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DC Circuit Sets April 1 Argument on Great Lakes Comnet Challenge to FCC Order

Oral argument is set for April 1 on Great Lakes Comnet's challenge to an FCC decision siding with AT&T in an access charge dispute, said an order Wednesday of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Great Lakes…

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Comnet v. FCC, No. 15-1064). GLC and subsidiary Westphalia Telephone say the FCC erroneously concluded GLC was a “competitive local exchange carrier” (CLEC), and even if GLC were a CLEC, the agency should have found it exempt from related regulations as a “rural CLEC,” among other arguments (see 1508190065).