[privacy] Judge wants more info on AT&T, Verizon mergers

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

From: http://news.com.com/2110-1036_3-6094314.html

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Friday asked for full,
unredacted versions of Federal Communications Commission orders that
approved the megamergers of SBC Communications with AT&T and Verizon
Communications with MCI last fall, according to a court filing. The
request came as Sullivan ponders whether to sign off on proposed
settlements between the government and the respective companies that
would officially allow the mergers to proceed with minor conditions in
place.

The judge's order followed a daylong hearing on Wednesday in which he
criticized the telephone companies and the Bush administration for
failing to provide enough factual evidence and expert testimony to
show the twin mergers are in the "public interest." The parties said
at the time that it's well within Sullivan's authority to take the
FCC's orders into account, but they have until Monday at 9 a.m. PDT to
object to the less-public versions of those documents being reviewed
by the court.

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-JP<who always wondered why no fuss was made about the bellsouth/at&t re-merger>
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