United States Supreme Court
Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc., 05-705
In the context of rules that require long-distance and other communications carriers to compensate a payphone operator when a caller uses a payphone to obtain free access to the carrier's lines, the FCC's application of 47 U.S.C. section 201(b) to a long distance carrier's refusal to pay compensation is a reasonable interpretation of the statute, and is, thus, lawful. 47 U.S.C. section 207 authorizes a payphone operator to bring a federal-court lawsuit against a recalcitrant carrier that refuses to pay the compensation ordered by the FCC.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/17/2007
- Published 04/17/2007
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- United States Supreme Court