Legal Opinion
At&t Communications of Illinois, Inc. v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co. And Ameritech Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 10, 2003No. 03-2735, 03-2766PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent local exchange carriers— the “Baby Bell” descendants of American Telephone & Telegraph, spun off in 1982 as part of the divestiture that ended the national telephone monopoly — to provide “unbundled” services to new entrants. One of history’s ironies is that AT&T itself, reduced to a long-distance carrier by the 1982 decree, has become one of the principal new entrants into local phone service. Meanwhile the Baby Bells, now grown up, are expanding into long-distance service. Many carriers offer local and national…
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3Cited by22 opinions
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