State Ex Rel. Utilities Com'n v. MCI Telecommunications Corporation

GREENE, Judge.

MCI Telecommunications Corporation, MCImetro Access Transmission Services, Inc., and Time Warner Communications of North Carolina, L.P. (collectively, Appellants), and GTE Communications (Cross-Appellant) (collectively, Joint Appellants) appeal from the North Carolina Utilities Commission’s (Commission) “Order Denying Motion For Reconsideration.”

Local telephone service historically has been provided by a monopoly Incumbent Local Exchange Company (ILEC) in a specific local service area. In 1995, in an effort to foster competition in local telephone service, the General Assembly…