Great Lakes Communications and Superior Telephone won a 10-day te...
Great Lakes Communications and Superior Telephone won a 10-day temporary restraining order on the Iowa Utilities Board decision that required the companies and six other rural carriers to refund unauthorized intrastate switched access charges billed to Qwest and other…
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big carriers (CD Oct 13 p10). The order, issued Thursday by the U.S. District Court in Sioux City, Iowa, stops the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) from reclaiming all blocks of telephone numbers assigned to Great Lakes, the court said. It also halts an Iowa Board proceeding asking Great Lakes why the company should be permitted to keep its certificate of public convenience and necessity. The order was necessary “to prevent irreparable harm to Great Lakes,” the court said. “Without telephone numbers, Great Lakes will not be able to provide any telecommunications services to its customers. Reclamation of its telephone numbers is likely to put Great Lakes out of business before its appeal of the Final Order could be considered.” The court said it hasn’t notified defendants NANPA or the Iowa Utilities Board about the restraining order because the NANPA “has already begun the number reclamation.” The court set a hearing for Tuesday on the Great Lakes and Superior’s motion for preliminary injunction, said Arent Fox attorney Ross Buntrock representing the rural carriers. A hearing on the merits will come later, he said.