FCC Draft Order Circulates on AT&T-Iowa Network Services Tariff Fight
A draft FCC order on an AT&T-Iowa Network Services tariff dispute is before commissioners, said the agency's circulation list updated Friday. A spokesman noted the intercarrier-compensation dispute proceeding in docket 17-56. INS (also called Aureon), a provider of centralized equal…
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access (CEA) service, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in 2014 alleging breach of its federal and state tariffs by customer AT&T; the court referred the case to the FCC, which ordered AT&T to file a complaint, said the parties' joint statement of stipulated facts. An AT&T brief said INS violated the law by engaging "in improper accounting methods that concealed manipulations of INS’s tariffed rate applicable" to CEA service. AT&T used "false cost allocation assumptions to contrive a lower rate in its CEA rate recalculations," replied INS. AT&T moved to strike portions of the INS brief; INS opposed the motion. AT&T and INS representatives didn't comment.