Article: CALTEL: Bush Administration OK's Higher Phone Rates Ruling; U.S. Solicitor General Declines to Defend Telecom Competition.

LOS ANGELES, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- CALTEL commented today on the announcement that the U.S. Solicitor General will not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court a lower federal court ruling that struck down access by competitive companies to the nation's telecommunications network at reasonable rates.

The following statement may be attributed to Nikayla Nail Thomas executive director of CALTEL, the California Association of Competitive Telecommunications Companies.

"California consumers can pull out their checkbooks and add higher phone bills to the ledger along with their higher mortgage payments and rising prices at the pump. The Bush administration's top ...

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