A Mich. PSC hearing officer recommended upholding SBC’s claim tha...
A Mich. PSC hearing officer recommended upholding SBC’s claim that CLEC Lucre Inc. owes it $1.3 million in unpaid access, SS7 and 911 charges. The administrative law judge’s recommendation (Case 14384) came on an SBC complaint alleging Lucre failed…
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to pay lawful and proper tariffed charges. Lucre didn’t dispute the signaling and 911 charges but said traffic that crossed SBC’s network en route from Verizon’s network to Lucre’s switches was billed incorrectly. Lucre said Verizon should have been billed at the unbundled dedicated local transport rate for Lucre-bound traffic originating in its territory, and Lucre billed for its Verizon-bound originating traffic at the same rate. The ALJ disagreed, saying facilities and network configurations used by Lucre didn’t fit the definition of dedicated local transport in FCC rules or in the carriers’ local interconnection agreement. The ALJ said the PSC should find that Lucre owes SBC the claimed access charges, and Lucre should start paying access charges when billed.