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ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. WORLDCOM TECHNOLOGIES

No. 98-3150.

157 F.3d 500 (1998)

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, doing business as Ameritech Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WORLDCOM TECHNOLOGIES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 10, 1998.

Issued September 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Demetrios G. Metropoulos (submitted on briefs), Theodore A. Livingston, Dennis G. Friedman, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Henry T. Kelly (submitted on briefs), Michael W. Ward, John F. Ward, Jr., O'Keefe, Ashenden, Lyons & Ward, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee WorldCom Technologies, Incorporated.

Frederick J. Artwick (submitted on briefs), Sidley & Austin, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee Teleport Communications Group, Incorporated.

Darryl M. Bradford (submitted on briefs), John R. Harrington, John J. Hamill, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee MCI Telecommunications Corporation.

John P. Kelliher (submitted on briefs), Office of Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, Thomas R. Stanton, Illinois Commerce Commission, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees Dan Miller and Richard Kolhauser.

Before EASTERBROOK, MANION, and KANNE, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Local telecommunications carriers must provide reciprocal compensation for local calls that use each other's networks. 47 U.S.C. § 251(b)(5). If a subscriber of Company A calls a subscriber of Company B, then A must share with B some of the revenues A collects from its subscriber, to compensate B for the use of its facilities. Like many other provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this requirement is enforced by state agencies...

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