The Crow Creek Sioux
Tribe of South Dakota is offering to settle a dispute with telecommunications giant Sprint.
The tribe operates Native American Telecom on the reservation.
The firm has been using the Sprint network to arrange conference calls in a practice that is sometimes called "traffic pumping."
"What NAT is doing is obviously legal and something they think is a good business model," attorney Scott Swier told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
NAT says it will charge a lower rate to Sprint to settle a dispute over the practice but Sprint says the firm is abusing the system.
The Federal Communications
Commission says traffic pumping is legal.
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Tribal telecom extends truce to Sprint over calls
(The Sioux Falls Argus Leader 9/14)
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