Legal Opinion
Sprintcom, Inc. v. Commissioners of the Illinois Commerce Commission
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 23, 2015No. 14-3807PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq., sought (so far as relates to this case) to encourage competition in local telephone service. 110 Stat. 56, preamble. Companies that had once been the local subsidiaries of AT & T, such as Illinois Bell, but that had become independent when AT & T was broken up in 1984 (or successors to those companies) were believed, despite the competition of MCI and GT & T in many parts of the country, to have near monopolies of local telephone service because of the heavy costs that a competitor would have to incur to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.District Court, District of Columbia · 1983
- Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 2002
- United States Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2004
- Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 2011
- United States Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies, Intervenors. United States Telecom Association v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America, At&t Corporation, IntervenorsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2002
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