[1st-mile-nm] Supreme Court agrees to review suit against AT&T

[Marianne Granoff]

FYI.  From another list.


>Supreme Court agrees to review suit against AT&T
>
>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080623/apfn_scotus_internet.html?.v=1
>
>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court intervened Monday in a lawsuit by an 
>Internet service provider accusing AT&T of anti-competitive practices.
>
>AT&T had asked the justices to step into the dispute over wholesale prices 
>AT&T charges for high-speed service to Internet service providers who then 
>compete with AT&T for retail Internet customers.
>
>AT&T says it is under no obligation to deal with the Internet service 
>providers and that the lawsuit should be thrown out for failing to state a 
>valid legal claim.
>
>The plaintiff in the lawsuit, LinkLine Communications Inc., buys 
>high-speed service from AT&T, combines it with other services and then 
>sells Internet-access service that compete against AT&T.
>
>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled against AT&T, 
>saying the telecom company was setting its wholesale prices so high that 
>the Internet service provider could not compete with the low prices AT&T 
>charged in the retail market. The appeals court said that federal courts 
>have recognized such price squeeze allegations for six decades.
>
>The Bush administration had urged the Supreme Court to take the case as 
>AT&T requested.
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