Legal Opinion
US West Communications v. MFS Intelenet, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 8, 1999No. Nos. 98-35146, 98-35203PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge:
The Telecommunications Act of 1996(Act) is designed to foster competition in local and long distance telephone markets. The local competition provisions of the Act require incumbent local exchange carriers (defined in 47 U.S.C. § 251(h)(1)) to allow other local exchange carriers access to the incumbent carrier’s networks or services to enable them to compete in providing local telephone services: (1) incumbent carriers must interconnect their networks with new entrants “at any technically feasible point,” and the interconnection must be “at least equal in…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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