After having tried all other means to get Sprint to pay up the amount owed to them in ‘interconnection fees,’ Verizon are suing Sprint to get them to finally make good on the $10 million. The following is a Verizon statement:[We have] repeatedly attempted to resolve this dispute short of litigation. Yet these attempts, made over many months and through both written and personal communications, have been fruitless. Accordingly, Verizon has been forced to seek relief from this court.
However, it is interesting to note that Sprint said they weren’t at all taken aback by Verizon’s filing a lawsuit. The legal suit is a way to keep the matter within the bounds of the legal system since the two-year statute of limitations is running out for Verizon. Furthermore, Sprint believes that they will be able to settle without further legal proceedings. Furthermore and quite ironically actually, Sprint lobbied the FCC to make certainthat AT&T abides by interconnection conditions that were required before AT&T’s merger with BellSouth was approved in 2006 and stays true to its word. And for the sake of Sprint mobile, one hopes that the $10 million or any acceptable pay-off amount that Sprint pays to Verizon won’t hurt its XOHM network launch.
[Via: RCRNews]
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