AT&T Sues Four Suburbs.(Brief article)

Multichannel News, May, 2006

By Staff Chicago-- Four more Chicago suburbs have been sued by AT&T Inc. for delaying plant improvements that will lead to a launch of the telephone company's video service. The new defendants are Itasca, North Aurora, Wood Dale and Geneva, Ill. Lawsuits were filed against the communities on May 2 in U.S.

District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Previously, AT&T sued the communities of Carpentersville, Roselle and Wheaton, Ill., as well as two communities in California. The telephone company is taking a hard line against communities that approve temporary bans on issuing "siting permits." City regulators say they need time to figure out how to safely site the large control boxes -- called 52Bs in the telco's shorthand -- in the...

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