Legal Opinion
At & T Communications of the Southwest, Inc. v. City of Dallas
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided June 8, 1998No. 1:98-cr-00003PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
BUCHMEYER, Chief Judge.
This opinion concerns the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which was passed to end the monopolies in local telephone services and to benefit consumers by fostering competition between telephone companies in cities throughout the United States — -including Dallas.
In this case, AT & T Communications (“AT & T”) plans to compete by using its existing fiber optic facilities to provide a new local telephone service known as “AT & T Digital Link” (“ADL”) to Dallas customers. However, the City of Dallas (“City”) claims that before AT & T can offer this…
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