Legal Opinion
WorldNet Telecommunications, Inc. v. Puerto Rico Telephone Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 11, 2007No. 06-1563 to 06-1566PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Seeking to spur competition in the telecommunications industry, 'Congress a decade ago passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“the Act”). 1 The Act not only permitted competitors to operate their own local exchange networks in competition with the local telephone company, 47 U.S.C. § 253(a), (d).(2000), but also obliged the local incumbent to assist new entrants in several respects, id. § 251(b)-(c). Pertinently, section 251 places on incumbent carriers a duty to provide competitors the ability to
interconnect ] with the [incumbent] carrier’s network — (A) for the…
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