NEW YORK-WorldCom Inc. has asked a bankruptcy court to not allow Cingular Wireless L.L.C. to transfer approximately 300,000 of its resale customers to its network due to Cingular’s illegal solicitation of WorldCom customers.
Cingular said it began to court WorldCom customers following its termination of its resale contract with WorldCom on July 16, which was before WorldCom filed for bankruptcy on July 21, but stopped trying to contact WorldCom customers following the bankruptcy filing.
WorldCom claims the termination notice did not constitute sufficient ground to terminate its reseller agreement between the two companies and that the terms Cingular was offering to pay to transfer its customers was well below what it was receiving from other carriers.
