CommLaw Monitor
Prepaid Card Provider Seeks Stay, Dismissal of AT&T Access Charge Suit
A few months ago, AT&T sued IDT Corp. for failing to pay access charges allegedly due on local-dialed prepaid calling cards. As we expected, IDT has moved the court to stay, or in the alternative, dismiss, AT&T's…
AT&T Sues Prepaid Card Provider for Access Charges
As we discussed previously, AT&T has been sending threatening letters to prepaid card providers who offer local telephone numbers as an alternative to 1-800 access. In our last post, we noted that the parties were far…
AT&T Threatens More Prepaid Providers With Litigation
In the last month, AT&T sent another round of demand letters to prepaid card providers seeking access charges on prepaid card calls. AT&T sent the first round of such letters in the fall of 2008. Now, we are seeing…
FCC Seeks Comments on Blue Casa Petition to Apply Access Charges to VNXX Calls Sent to ISPs
The FCC is seeking comment on Blue Casa Communications’ petition to apply access charges to VNXX calls sent to ISPs. On December 19, 2008, Blue Casa filed a petition asking the FCC to issue a declaratory ruling that…
Qwest Files Access Charge Lawsuit Against CLECs in Seattle
Qwest has begun following in the footsteps of SBC/AT&T by bringing collection actions against CLECs and their IXC customers for access charges which are allegedly due for terminating traffic to Qwest customers. On…