FCC Tariff Rate Order Hurting Bottom Line, Aureon Tells Court
That Iowa Network Services (Aureon) is now subject to both ILEC and CLEC rate regulation though it historically was regulated only as a dominant carrier will keep it from charging what it needs to for providing centralized call access…
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service and thus will be unable to attract capital or maintain its network. That according to Aureon in an initial brief to be posted in docket 19-1087 at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in the company's challenge of the FCC February tariff rate order (see 1904180053). Aureon said no carrier challenged its 2013 tariff rate, nor did the FCC, and the agency retroactively voiding that rate violates law and court precedent. The FCC didn't comment Monday.