Message-ID: <20220615000346.AC8F6892@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:03:46 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Copper Retirement Network Change Notification Filed By At&T Georgia
Wireline Competition Bureau Copper Retirement Network Change
Notification Filed By Bellsouth Telecommunications, Llc
D/B/A At&T Georgia
WC Docket No. 22-225 June 7, 2022
Report No. NCD-3463
Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received
BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Georgia (AT&T), an
incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that
public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper
has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet site, as
required by section 51.329(a)(2) of the rules of the Federal Commun-
ications Commission (FCC or Commission), together with certification
of service on identified interconnecting telephone exchange service
providers, as required by section 51.333(a). Upon initial review the
filing appears to be complete. Specific network change information
can be obtained on the Internet at:
https://ebiznet.att.com/networkreg/.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/wcb-copper-retirement-network-change-notification-filed-att-ga-29
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Message-ID: <20220615001947.2529F892@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:19:47 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: AT&T Enters pleading in bankruptcy case
U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT
Honorable Bess M. Parrish Creswell
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Montgomery Phone: (877) 336-1839
Participant Code: 361328
ATT Conference BPC
1:15 PM 20-30233 John Sullivan Woodall, Jr. and
Ch 7 Michele Renee Woodall
Trustee: Wilkins
Opposing:
Debtor or Plaintiff Attorney: Byron Mark Richardson
Matter: Doc# 52 Trustee's Final Report (TFR) for Compensation and Expenses
https://www.almb.uscourts.gov/sites/almb/files/2022t0524.pdf
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***** Moderator's Note *****
Make of it what you will: I'm not a lawyer, so stuff like this is more
for background than anything else.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Message-ID: <0a8d375c-11ca-1591-1f38-dc4796c7d0af@ionary.com>
Date: 12 Jun 2022 11:16:51 -0400
From: "Fred Goldstein" <invalid@see.sig.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: I think I understand, sort of, maybe, possibly
On 6/11/2022 11:18 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> I need a lawyer, Or a linguist, or a shaman, or a soothsayer. I need
> *somebody* that can tell me what a "Modified Final Judgement" is, and
> why it's being done, and whether it should have been done, and if it
> is going to make any difference to we telephone users.
>
> I need help.
>
> Bill Horne
> Moderator
>
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>
> Defendants entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated June 5,
> 2008, pursuant to which Verizon Communications Inc. ("Verizon")
> acquired Alltel Corporation ("Alltel"). Plaintiffs United States and
> the States of Alabama, California, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, North
> Dakota, and South Dakota ("plaintiff States") filed a civil antitrust
> Complaint on October 30, 2008, seeking to enjoin the proposed
> acquisition. As explained more fully in the Complaint, and the
> concurrently filed Competitive Impact Statement, the likely effect of
> this acquisition would have been to lessen competition substantially
> for mobile wireless telecommunications services in 94 Cellular Market
> Areas ("CMAs") in 22 states (1) where Verizon and Alltel were among
> the most significant competitors, in violation of Section 7 of the
> Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18. This loss of competition would have
> resulted in consumers in those areas facing higher prices, lower
> quality service and fewer choices of mobile wireless
> telecommunications services.
>
>
https://www.justice.gov/atr/case-document/memorandum-plaintiff-united-states-support-unopposed-motion-modify-final-judgmen-0
>
The MFJ in question is dated 2011, so this is very old news. It
concerned terms of Verizon's acquisition of Alltel. The original
wireline Alltel had been spun off as Windstream, and there were markets
where Verizon and Alltel were the two main mobile competitors, so
Verizon was not allowed to acquire those Alltel markets. A new
mini-Alltel thus continued in those markets under Atlantic Telenetwork
ownership.
An MFJ, as I understand it as a non-lawyer, is when a previously settled
case is reopened in order to modify some of its conditions. A case
closes with a Final Judgement (FJ) and thus an MFJ happens when there is
reason to revisit it.
The 1984 AT&T divestiture was probably the most famous Modification of
Final Judgment, at least in telecom. It was a consent decree (both
parties agreed to it) to modify restraints put on AT&T in a 1956
settlement, the FJ that was modified, which had permitted AT&T to
continue as a monopoly but which largely limited Western Electric to
selling only within the Bell System, not in competitive markets.
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***** Moderator's Note *****
Here's why I'm confused: there was an announcement, dated a few days
ago, and I don't understand /what/ was modified, or /why/.
I think I'll go get a law degree: are there correspondence courses
that will make me a lawyer?
Bill Horne
Moderator
