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Southwestern Bell to Oppose AT&T Bid for Texas Local Telephone Service.(Originated from Austin American-Statesman, Texas)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 1996 by Hight, Bruce
Mar. 1--AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, challenged Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. on Thursday in seeking to provide local telephone service in Texas and four other states.
Southwestern Bell will oppose AT&T's applications before the Public Utility Commission, and the loser there likely will take the case to the Federal Communications Commission or the courts.
Vaughn Aldredge, an AT&T spokesman, said the company hoped to offer local service "by the end of the year."
AT&T's applications in Texas depend on an argument that the new federal telecommunications law overrides a key provision of a slightly older state telecommunications law. That provision is that the state's three largest long-distance companies -- AT&T, MCI and Sprint -- must...
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