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A federal court in Illinois has ruled on T-Mobile’s and Inteliquent’s motions to dismiss the class action lawsuit filed against them alleging violations of the FCC’s rural call completion rules. The claims against T-Mobile alleging violations of the Communications Act will move forward, along with the civil conspiracy claim.
T-Mobile USA, Inc. has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by Craigville Telephone Co. d and Consolidated Telephone Co. related to T-Mobile’s past violations of the FCC’s rural call completion rules. In general, T-Mobile argues every claim in the complaint should be dismissed because the “Plaintiffs have failed to plead a plausible theory of injury.”
Two rural communications companies have filed a class action lawsuit, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated companies, against T-Mobile USA, Inc., Inteliquent, Inc., and 10 Doe Defendants. The Plaintiffs are seeking relief for injuries sustained from T-Mobile’s violations of the FCC’s rural call completion rules. The claims in the lawsuit are largely based on an April 2018 Consent Decree between T-Mobile and the FCC, in which T-Mobile admitted that it violated the FCC’s rules by inserting false ring tones into calls made to rural areas and failing to police the conduct of its intermediate providers.
The U.S. Department of Justice, along with five states have reached a settlement with T-Mobile and Sprint, allowing the two smallest nationwide mobile wireless providers to merge. The settlement requires T-Mobile and Sprint to divest various assets to Dish Network.
