United States Eighth Circuit

A decision of the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) regarding wireless phone calls which originate and terminate within the same major trading area (MTA), or intraMTA wireless calls, is affirmed over rural telephone carriers' challenge where: 1) the IUB acted within its authority and did not violate federal law in prohibiting carriers from charging access fees for intraMTA traffic; and 2) the IUB acted within its authority when it directed the rural carriers to allow their customers to dial intraMTA calls as local calls.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/08/2007
• Published 01/08/2007

Judges

• BYE, Circuit Judge., Before BYE, HANSEN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas George Fisher, Jr., Des Moines, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• David Jay Lynch, Iowa Utilities Board Department of Commerce, Des Moines, IA, for Defendant-Appellee., Amy Marie Bjork, Dorsey & Whitney, Des Moines, IA, Roy E. Hoffinger, Bobbee J. Musgrave, Steven J. Perfrement, Paul J. Lopach, Musgrave & Theis, Denver, CO, for Intervenor Defendant-Appellee.