McCaw Personal Communications, Inc. v. Pacific Telesis Group

MEMORANDUM DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge.

Defendant Pacific Telesis Group (“Pacific”) has agreed to acquire the assets of Communications Industries, Inc. (“Cl”), including Cl’s paging businesses in San Francisco, San Diego and Fresno. Plaintiff McCaw Personal Communications, Inc. (“McCaw”), has entered into its own agreement to purchase paging businesses in these three cities, from MCI Airsignal Inc. (“MCI”). Contending that Pacific’s acquisition of Cl’s paging assets would substantially lessen competition in the paging markets in San…