| reply to OwlSaver
Re: How can they stop this? This same thing happened 2000 when USWest/Qwest was going to sell a bunch of exchanges to Citizens Communications(now Frontier). Citizens was going to buy exchanges in every USWest state, except Utah. The Utah PUC insisted USWest had to allow the other independents in the state to bid on the exchanges being sold. It turned out Citizens got NO exchanges in Utah, and subsequently the rest of the deal fell through, but the Utah sales still happened. So the states can have some major impact. |
