Western Wireless files suit over Nebraska LNP waiver.(News)

RCR Wireless News, August, 2004

Byline: HEATHER FORSGREN WEAVER Western Wireless Corp. went on the defensive Aug. 5, filing suit in federal court in Nebraska against the Nebraska Public Service Commission and several rural local exchange carriers, objecting to a NPSC waiver granted to the RLECs removing their responsibilities to implement intermodal porting.

"The NPSC has chosen not to implement the pro-competitive mandates of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, thereby depriving rural consumers the right to switch carriers but retain their same telephone number. Notwithstanding the fact that at least one rural telephone company in Nebraska, all non-rural telephone companies in Nebraska, and numerous other rural and non-rural telephone companies throughout the U.S. have implemented...

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