• On November 1, 2011, Qwest Corporation and Qwest Communications Company, LLC filed an answer with the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) denying the substantive allegations contained in the complaint of Aventure Communication Technology LLC. Aventure filed its complaint with the IUB in April of this year, alleging that the Qwest entities and PAETEC Communications, Inc. are sending “phantom traffic” to Aventure’s network in a “fraudulent scheme to avoid paying terminating access charges on intrastate and interstate long distance traffic terminated by Aventure at its central office in rural Salix, Iowa.” Aventure asserts that the Qwest local exchange entity, in coordination with Qwest the interexchange carrier and PAETEC, is intentionally manipulating signaling information on interexchange traffic to make it appear as local traffic and then routing it over Aventure’s facilities dedicated for local traffic. In its answer, however, Qwest “categorically” denied that is “has acted in any way on any incentive to engage in the practice of phantom traffic.” Qwest further denied that its interexchange entity was involved in the calls destined for Aventure, stating that the calls that are the subject of the complaint are being transported by PAETEC “as a long distance carrier, and thus any alleged switched access charges” would be owed by PAETEC, and not Qwest. PAETEC has yet to answer Aventure’s complaint. Docket FCU-2011-0014.