U S West wins final OK to challenge BellSouth. (U S WEST Inc.; BellSouth Corp.)

Multichannel News, October, 1995 by Estrella, Joe

The 1996 Summer Olympics may not be the only competition to hit Georgia next year. Atlanta's local telephone market will also be heating up about then, thanks to a Georgia Public Service Commission ruling last week authorizing U S West Inc. to begin offering local phone service to its 500,000 area cable television subscribers.

The PSC's action sets the stage for the first-ever showdown between regional Bell operating companies, as U S West and incumbent local exchange carrier BellSouth Corp. battle for telephone customers in the nation's ninth-largest market. How soon U S West gets into the local loop will depend on how quickly it reaches an interconnection agreement with Bell-South, said Bruce Posey, vice president for public policy and...

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