The Supreme Court is the highest in the land, but that doesn’t always give it the last word, particularly on as thorny an issue as federal regulation of the topsy-turvy telecommunications market.
Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, in part, to end the monopoly of the former Baby Bells as local exchange carriers (LECs), the providers of basic, dial-tone phone service.
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