(December 15, 2017, 3:40 PM EST) -- NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Nov. 29 affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a telecommunications provider must pay a local government the fees it owes under a county ordinance that was eventually found to be invalid because the telecommunications provider signed a franchise agreement with the municipality that outlined the fees to be paid for use of the municipality’s public rights of way (Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee v. Teleport Communications America LLC, No. M2016-02222, Tenn. App., 2017 Tenn. App. LEXIS 772)....