Legal Opinion
Verizon North Inc. v. John G. Strand, Coast to Coast Telecommunications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 28, 2004No. 02-2322PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
The Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the “1996 Act” or the “Act”), Pub.L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996) (codified in various sections of 47 U.S.C.) fundamentally restructured local telephone markets by ending the era of state-granted telecommunications monopolies and by encouraging competition among providers of local telephone service. AT & T Corp. v. Iowa Utils. Bd., 525 U.S. 366, 371, 119 S.Ct. 721, 142 L.Ed.2d 835 (1996). To reach this objective, the 1996 Act required incumbent telecommunications carriers to share their networks with competitors in…
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