Legal Opinion
U S West Communications, Inc. v. Arizona Corp. Commission
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided May 18, 1999No. 1 CA-CV 97-0517PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RYAN, Judge.
¶ 1 For more than eighty years, U S WEST Communications, Inc. (“U S WEST”) and its predecessor have had a monopoly in providing local telephone service in Arizona. Recently, the process to change this situation in the local telecommunications field was begun. This appeal presents questions arising out of these first steps to introduce competition in the local telecommunications field.
12 U S WEST challenges the Arizona Corporation Commission’s (“Commission”) rules setting the structure to allow other telecommunications companies to compete for customers. U S WEST argues that…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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3Cited by5 opinions
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