Legal Opinion
Qwest Corp. v. Arizona Corp. Commission
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 8, 2009No. 07-17079, 07-17080PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:
The Telecommunications Act of 1996(“Act” or “1996 Act”), Pub.L. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (codified in part at 47 U.S.C. §§ 251-261, 271), created a complex federal scheme to encourage competition in local telephone service markets previously dominated by state-sanctioned local exchange carrier monopolies. AT & T Corp. v. Iowa Utils. Bd., 525 U.S. 366, 371-72, 377-80, 119 S.Ct. 721, 142 L.Ed.2d 835 (1999). Sections 251 and 252 of the Act require former monopoly local carriers to enter into interconnection agreements that provide the new competitors with access to some of…
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