Prelude

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On October 15th, 2002 — over 13 years ago — AT&T filed a Petition with the FCC to investigate the “special access” services that are controlled by the “Bell” companies, now AT&T, Verizon and Centurylink. The above quote supplies two of the section headings from the Petition’s Table of Contents. I’ll get back to this in a moment.

Map: The “Bell” companies before 1996 and the current AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink territories.

Fast Forward: During the summer of 2015, the FCC announced that it had collected new information about special access read more >>>

Source : HuffingtonPost.Com