FCC Asks Court To Deny Saturn Telecom Challenge in Complaint Against AT&T
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit should uphold a 2014 FCC order rejecting a Saturn Telecommunications Services complaint against AT&T (then BellSouth) over a 2006 interconnection agreement, the agency said in a brief Tuesday asking the court…
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to deny Saturn's petition for review. The FCC said Saturn, a competitive LEC, was bound by the terms of a settlement to not refile allegations against AT&T related to their interconnection proceeding in Florida. The FCC disputed Saturn's contention that its complaint to the commission was limited to post-settlement conduct, and regardless, the agency said, Saturn's claim accrued before the settlement. The FCC also said the court had no jurisdiction to review a Saturn breach-of-contract claim -- that AT&T had failed to convert 2,500 of the CLEC's customers to a new wholesale platform -- because Saturn had not exhausted its administrative remedies.