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IN RE: IntraMTA Switched Access Charges Litigation

  1. July 03, 2018

    Sprint Urges FCC To Clarify Local Carrier Fee Rules

    Sprint representatives met with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to urge the agency to resolve legal questions surrounding whether carriers must pay local access charges even for wireless users making local calls, a dispute over compensation that has been playing out in multidistrict litigation for several years.

  2. May 16, 2018

    Verizon, Sprint Can't Duck Local Carrier Fees In MDL

    Verizon and Sprint can't avoid paying local access charges even for wireless users making local calls, a Texas federal judge has ruled, granting a win on counterclaims lobbed by hundreds of local exchange carriers against the multidistrict litigation the telecom giants launched with allegations of overbilling.

  3. March 13, 2018

    Local Carriers Say Verizon, Sprint Can't Duck Fees In MDL

    Verizon and Sprint cannot avoid paying local access charges, even for wireless callers making local calls, local exchange carriers told a Texas federal judge Monday, pursuing a win on counterclaims they've sought against the multidistrict litigation the telecom giants launched with allegations of overbilling.

  4. May 04, 2017

    Sprint's State Law Claims Tossed In Local Carrier Fees MDL

    A Texas federal judge on Wednesday tossed Sprint's state law claims and amended complaints against local exchange carriers being sued by Sprint and Verizon in a multidistrict litigation for alleged overbilling for wireless callers accessing local telephone exchanges.

  5. September 07, 2016

    Level 3 Relies On Faulty FCC Order In Fees Suits, Court Told

    Local exchange carriers can challenge Level 3's new arguments for tossing suits in multidistrict litigation alleging the telecom services provider withheld fees for certain wireless calls, after taking issue with an FCC order the company raised as supporting dismissal.

  6. July 14, 2016

    Level 3 Says Carriers' Call Fees Suit Gets Law Wrong

    Level 3 asked a Texas federal court Wednesday to toss two lawsuits alleging the Colorado-based telecom services provider withheld fees for some wireless calls, arguing the suing regional phone companies misunderstand the law in thinking they can lay claim to the fees.

  7. November 17, 2015

    Local Carriers' Long-Distance Fees On Wireless Calls OK'd

    A Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that local phone carriers can charge fees to wireless providers for calls from cellphones to landlines that transmit over long-distance lines, even if the calls begin and end in the same region.

  8. July 27, 2015

    AT&T Defends Bid To Send Call-Routing Row To FCC

    AT&T Corp. doubled down on a bid to send a massive call-routing charges suit to the Federal Communications Commission, telling a Texas federal judge Friday that any ruling in the case could conflict with an upcoming agency decision.

  9. June 25, 2015

    FCC Should Resolve Call Routing Rows, Trade Group Says

    A trade group for hundreds of rural telephone carriers urged the Federal Communications Commission Wednesday to resolve a massive call routing dispute between telecommunications giants Sprint Communications Inc. and Verizon Inc. and hundreds of smaller local carriers.

  10. June 22, 2015

    Sprint, Verizon Fight Dismissal Bid In Overcharging MDL

    Sprint Communications Co. and Verizon Communications Inc. on Friday blasted a series of dismissal bids in Texas federal court against their suits alleging overbilling for wireless callers accessing local telephone exchanges, arguing that fees depend on the kind of traffic, not who's involved in a call.

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