ALJ/KAJ/jyc Date of Issuance 12/5/2008
Decision 08-12-005 December 4, 2008
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Pacific Bell Telephone Company ) d/b/a Complainant, vs. Sprint Spectrum L.P., Wireless Co., L.P. and Defendant. |
(Filed December 19, 2007) |
DECISION GRANTING RELIEF REQUESTED BY AT&T CALIFORNIA
1. Summary
In this decision, we determine that Sprint Spectrum L.P., Wireless Co., L.P. and Cox Communications PCS, L.P. (jointly Sprint PCS) violated the terms of its interconnection agreement with Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T) by refusing to pay the transiting rates1 mandated by that agreement. Sprint PCS is ordered to immediately pay AT&T all amounts AT&T has billed for transiting that Sprint PCS has withheld. Sprint PCS is also ordered to make late payment charges on the payments it withheld.
1 Transit traffic is traffic carried by a carrier that is not the originating or terminating carrier. It is transport that is between the originating and terminating carriers.
