Legal Opinion
North American Telecommunications Ass'n v. Federal Communications Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1985No. Nos. 84-2216, 84-2853 and 85-1425PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Last summer, in Illinois Bell Tel. Co. v. FCC, 740 F.2d 465 (7th Cir.1984), we upheld an order by the Federal Communications Commission establishing conditions under which the Bell operating companies, having been divested from American Telephone and Telegraph Company as part of the settlement of the government’s antitrust suit against AT & T, could resume the marketing of telephone handsets and other “customer premises equipment” (as well as “enhanced services,” but they are not important in the present case) to their subscribers. We had thought that, having upheld the…
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