Article: ACSI Urges FCC to Deny Premature BellSouth Bid to Offer Long Distance In South Carolina

Competitive Local Phone Company Charges Monopoly With Trying to 'End Run'

 
 Local Competition Requirements of the Telecommunications Act 
 And Prematurely Enter South Carolina's Long Distance Market 

ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- American Communications Services, Inc. (ACSI), a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) currently providing resold local exchange service in four South Carolina markets where it has local fiber optic networks, dismissed as "frivolous" BellSouth's bid to offer long distance in that state, and asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny the monopoly's Section 271 long distance petition. ...

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