Last week, the Supreme Court ruled against the challenge to the FCC's authority to call the tune on enforcement of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. How close did Justice Scalia's opinion in AT&T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities Bd. bring us to a resolution of the basic issues between the FCC and the Baby Bells?
February 08, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The Supreme Court is the highest in the land, but that doesn’t always give it the last word, particularly on as thorny an issue as federal regulation of the topsy-turvy telecommunications market.
Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, in part, to end the monopoly of the former Baby Bells as local exchange carriers (LECs), the providers of basic, dial-tone phone service.
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