[19236] in North American Network Operators' Group
Ameritech must be talking to the PA PUC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Wed Sep 2 20:24:38 1998
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:07:52 -0400
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
"Late news" - Crains Cleveland Business 8/31/98
[Note: How was it determined that these were Internet calls? Well, until
recently, ICG did not provide dialtone in Cleveland to anyone except ISP's.]
Ameritech Loses Regulatory Dispute
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio last week ended a long battle between
Denver-based ICG Communications INC. and Ameritech Corp. over fees charged to
connect Internet calls. The PUCO ruled in favor of ICG, which contended that
Ameritech owed it $4 million for connecting Ameritech customers' calls to
Internet service providers. Ameritech previously refused to pay the charges,
arguing that Internet calls are long-distance calls, not local calls, and
thus weren't subject to the mandated connection fees. Ameritech spokesman
Kim Norris said Ameritech has not decided whether to appeal the ruling.
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