Were MCI Engineers In On It Too?

AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T)is creating an awful stink about MCI's (Nasdaq: MCIT) alleged creative routing practices, but according to analysts familiar with MCI’s network, it might not be in as much trouble as AT&T would have us believe (see MCI's 'Creative Routing').
According to court documents passed to Boardwatch that were filed by AT&T this week in the U.S. bankruptcy court in New York, MCI “knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly shifted to AT&T the cost of terminating its customers’ calls to areas of the U.S. with especially high access charges for terminating calls… dumping high cost traffic upon AT&T.”
AT&T says its has undertaken significant testing of the calls coming onto its network from Canada, where MCI rerouted calls to save itself access charges, to prove this...
Get all the dirt on Boardwatch.
— Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Boardwatch
According to court documents passed to Boardwatch that were filed by AT&T this week in the U.S. bankruptcy court in New York, MCI “knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly shifted to AT&T the cost of terminating its customers’ calls to areas of the U.S. with especially high access charges for terminating calls… dumping high cost traffic upon AT&T.”
AT&T says its has undertaken significant testing of the calls coming onto its network from Canada, where MCI rerouted calls to save itself access charges, to prove this...
Get all the dirt on Boardwatch.
— Jo Maitland, Senior Editor, Boardwatch
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