MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
DANIEL, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
The passage by Congress of the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("the Act") marks the beginning of a new era in the local telephone market. The Act, at its core, is designed, among other things, to end monopolies in the local telephone market and open the market to competition. Incumbent local exchange carriers ("ILECs") such as U.S. West Communications...
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