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Qwest sues a customer

Opinion
Oct 30, 20032 mins
AT&TWi-Fi

* Qwest charges AT&T with knowingly submitting inaccurate toll-free number data

Qwest last week sued wholesale customer AT&T, alleging inaccurate billing of toll-free calls routed across the Qwest network. Qwest is seeking to recoup fees from AT&T lost to under-billing based on an inaccurate AT&T database of toll-free calls using Qwest’s network. Qwest says the under-billing amounted to $15 million to $20 million annually in lost access fees. AT&T denies the allegations and says the carriers have been working to resolve the dispute for the past 16 months. Qwest says the suit was inevitable after exhausting all means of resolution. http://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/1023qatt.html

Qwest last week sued wholesale customer AT&T, alleging inaccurate billing of toll-free calls routed across the Qwest network. Qwest is seeking to recoup fees from AT&T lost to under-billing based on an inaccurate AT&T database of toll-free calls using Qwest’s network. Qwest says the under-billing amounted to $15 million to $20 million annually in lost access fees. AT&T denies the allegations and says the carriers have been working to resolve the dispute for the past 16 months. Qwest says the suit was inevitable after exhausting all means of resolution.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/1023qatt.html

Nortel is restating financial results for 2000, 2001, 2002 and the first two quarters of 2003 as part of an ongoing review of its assets and liabilities. The restatements should reduce the losses Nortel reported in 2000 through 2002 and increase shareholders’ equity and net assets as reported on its balance sheet on June 30, 2003, the company said. Nortel is attempting to pinpoint the cause of the mistakes and sought to assure stakeholders in a conference call last week that they will not happen again. For the third quarter of 2003, Nortel recorded a profit of about $179 million, or 4 cents per share. The results exceeded analyst forecasts of break-even results on revenue of $2.33 billion. Revenue for the quarter, ended Sept. 30, came in close to that estimate at $2.27 billion, but was down 2.2% sequentially and 3.4% year over year. Nortel expects fourth-quarter revenue to pick up, and to be profitable for the full year of fiscal 2003 – the first time in six years Nortel’s achieved full-year profitability.

https://www.nwfusion.com/edge/news/2003/1023norterepor.html

jim_duffy
Managing Editor

Jim Duffy has been covering technology for over 28 years, 23 at Network World. He covers enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers and switches. He also writes The Cisco Connection blog and can be reached on Twitter @Jim_Duffy and at jduffy@nww.com.Google+

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