Denying Orange‘s petition for judicial review, Judge Scheaplor R. Dunbar declared “The petition for judicial review is denied and dismissed, and the resistance is sustained. The stay order of April 15, 2019 is lifted. LTA also argued that in consideration of Orange’s request for postponement of the deadline was to enable consultation and based on Orange’s own determination that additional time was needed, the request was granted. “The consultation process was extended to February 20, 2019, during which the time Orange made several presentations to the LTA board of commissioners on the floor price and surcharge and submitted a letter dated February 19, 2019 agreeing with the LTA on the implementation of the floor price,” LTA argued. “While we were still not agreeable to the implementation of floor prices on the services it provides, the LTA elected to place additional fee on Orange’s services by imposing surcharges for on-net minute and megabyte,” Orange’s lawsuit claimed, adding, “thereby exacerbating the problem affecting the consultation process and without regard to the several reservations Orange had made in several letters to LTA.”

Source: Daily Observer May 08, 2019 02:26 UTC