Judge blocks SBC from charging competitors more just ahead of FCC order

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The FCC order is scheduled for this Friday. In the meantime SBC was to start charging other DSL Providers about $20 per line instead of the now $12 a line. SBC claims they have been losing money to the Competitors. The Judge asked SBC to prove that they are losing and SBC could not prove it.

http://www.phoneplusmag.com/hotnews/36h917356.html

Judge Blocks Wholesale Phone-Rate Hike in Illinois
By Josh Long

A judge on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Illinois telecom regulator from imposing new wholesale phone rates that would have allowed SBC Communications Inc. to charge rivals more money to lease its local network.

Charles P. Kocoras, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, ruled that a state law requiring the new rates to go into effect beginning today violated federal law.

The judge said th...

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