PUERTO RICO TEL. CO. v. F.C.C.

No. 76-1134.

553 F.2d 694 (1977)

PUERTO RICO TELEPHONE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, and United States of America, Respondents, Comtronics, Inc., Intervenor.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 31, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alberto Pico Santiago and Alberto Pico Gonzalez, San Juan, P. R., with whom Brown Newsom & Cordova, San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for petitioner.

John E. Ingle, Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Werner K. Hartenberger, Acting Gen. Counsel, Daniel M. Armstrong, Associate Gen. Counsel, Donald I. Baker, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., and Barry M. Grossman, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., were on brief, for respondents.

Sigfredo Irizarry, San Juan, P. R., for Intervenor, Comtronics, Inc.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

Until recently the Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC) was a Delaware corporation operated as a subsidiary of the International Telephone & Telegraph Company. In 1974 the Commonwealth's legislature established the Puerto Rico Telephone Authority and directed it to "acquire and operate, through the means that it finds most convenient to the public interest, all the telephone and telegraph communication...

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