Virgin Islands Telephone Corp. v. Federal Communications Commission

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROGERS.

ROGERS, Circuit Judge:

Petitioner, the Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation, is a provider of local telephone service in the U.S. Virgin Islands. AT&T Submarine Systems, Inc. (“AT&T-SSI”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of inter-venor, AT&T Corporation, constructs and maintains undersea fiber optic telecommunications cable systems, or, submarine cable systems. In this appeal, petitioner contends that in granting AT&T-SSI’s application for cable landing rights as a non-common carrier, the Federal Communications Commission (“Commission”) ignored…