SDN Asks US Appeals Court to Lift Hold on Tariff Review Cases
South Dakota Network (SDN) asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in a filing (in Pacer) Tuesday to move forward with its review of an FCC investigation into several tariff rate disputes despite an agency request for…
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consolidation of several of the cases and to put some of those on hold (see 1905200010). Earlier this year, the FCC asked Iowa Network Services (Aureon) to change its rate tariff for interstate switched transport in its centralized equal access (CEA) service delivering long-distance traffic to small telcos, and separately found SDN's revised rate tariff for the CEA service unlawful (see 1903010004). SDN wants the abeyance lifted on both the Aureon referral cases and the tariff review orders. SDN said it expects its own review proceeding to follow the Aureon cases, and it plans to file a motion with the appeals court for case 19-1094 "shortly."