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AT&T COMMUNICATIONS OF OHIO, INC. v. PUB. UTIL. COMM.

Nos. 98-28 and 98-30.

88 Ohio St.3d 549 (2000)

AT&T COMMUNICATIONS OF OHIO, INC., APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE. MCI TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided May 31, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Chorzempa; Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, L.L.P., Sandra J. Anderson, Benita Kahn and W. Evan Price II, for appellant AT&T Communications of Ohio, Inc.

Bell, Royer & Sanders Co., L.P.A., Barth E. Royer and Judith B. Sanders, for appellant MCI Telecommunications Corporation.

Betty D. Montgomery, Attorney General, Duane W. Luckey, Steven T. Nourse and Stephen A. Reilly, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellee Public Utilities Commission of Ohio.

Michael T. Mulcahy; Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Daniel R. Conway, Samuel H. Porter and Robert W. Trafford, for intervening appellee Ameritech Ohio.

Robert S. Tongren, Ohio Consumers' Counsel, Yolanda V. Vorys and David C. Bergmann, Assistant Consumers' Counsel, urging reversal in case No. 98-28, for amicus curiae, Ohio Consumers' Counsel.

FRANCIS E. SWEENEY, SR., J.

The complaint case proceedings before the commission that are the subject of this appeal involved the legality and reasonableness of Ameritech's intrastate "switched access charges." Access charges are charges that long distance telephone companies (also called "Interexchange Carriers" or "IXCs") pay to local service telephone companies (also called "Local Exchange Carriers" or "LECs") for the use of their local network facilities to originate...

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