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AT&T COMMUNICATIONS OF IL v. ILLINOIS BELL TEL.

Nos. 03-2735, 03-2766.

349 F.3d 402 (2003)

AT&T COMMUNICATIONS OF ILLINOIS, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. and Ameritech Corp., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Carpenter (argued), Mark B. Blocker, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, Chicago, IL, for Voices for Choices, AT&T Communications of Illinois and Association for Local Telecommunications Services.

Mark D. Schneider, Jenner & Block, Washington, DC, John R. Harrington, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL, for MCI Metro Access Transmission Services.

Stephen M. Shapiro (argued), Theodore A. Livingston, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL, for Illinois Bell Telephone and Ameritech.

Julian Solotorovsky, Henry T. Kelly, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Chicago, IL, for Talk America, Z-Tel Communications, Corecomm Illinois, Data Net Systems, Trucomm, and Focal Communications Co. of Illinois.

Julie B. Lucas, Robert J. Kelter, Citizens Utility Board, Chicago, IL, for Citizens Utility Board.

Thomas H. Rowland, Rowland & Moore, Chicago, IL, for Globalcom.

Owen E. MacBride, Barry S. Alberts, Schiff, Hardin & Waite, Chicago, IL, for TDS Metrocom, MPower Communications, and McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK, and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent local exchange carriers — the "Baby Bell" descendants of American Telephone & Telegraph, spun off in 1982 as part of the divestiture that ended the national telephone monopoly—to provide "unbundled" services to new entrants. One of history's ironies is that AT&T itself, reduced to a long-distance carrier by the 1982 decree, has become one of the principal new entrants...

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