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In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

On December 27, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida denied a putative class representative's motion to certify her suit as

Telecom privacy news

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 29 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court last week in City of Ontario v. Quon, Case 08-1332. EFF said that text messages should be entitled to constitutional privacy protections prohibiting warrantless law enforcement searches

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

On March 2, 2010, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan affirmed the order of the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) that extended Sprint's interconnection agreement with AT&T in accordance with the FCC's AT&T-BellSouth merger conditions

Developments in intercarrier compensation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2010

On March 17, 2010, the FCC released its Third Order on Reconsideration in the Qwest v. Farmers and Merchants proceeding

Developments in intercarrier compensation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2010

On February 25, 2010, Qwest Corp. filed a seven-count complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Broadvox, Inc. seeking recovery of unpaid access charges

Developments in intercarrier compensation

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2010

On February 18, 2010, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois denied the motion of AT&T-Illinois to dismiss claims by Global NAPs Illinois, Inc. that the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) violated federal communications law and due process in holding that GNAPs owes AT&T terminating access charges for Voice-over-Internet-Protocol traffic under the parties’ interconnection agreement

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

On May 13, 2010, the US District Court for the Southern District of California granted in part and denied in part Verizon Wireless's motion to dismiss a consumer's complaint challenging its practice of charging sales tax on the full retail price of telephones, rather than the actual price paid by the consumer

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2010

On May 3, 2010, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona dismissed, without prejudice, a suit by North County Communications seeking tariffed charges for terminating traffic received from CLECs McLeod USA Telecommunications Services, Cox Arizona Telcom, and Electric Lightwave

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) developments

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2010

The FTC announced that it has settled its federal case against Diamond Phone Card., Inc., a calling card company

In the courts

  • Arent Fox LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2010

On May 10, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed two district court orders dismissing separate complaints brought against T-Mobile USA, Inc. challenging the carrier’s practice of billing customers both a Universal Service Fund fee and a Regulatory Programs Fee