ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE CO. v. ILLINOIS COMMERCE COM'N

No. 4-04-0911.

840 N.E.2d 704 (2005)

362 Ill. App.3d 652

298 Ill.Dec. 591

ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. The ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION; United States Cellular Corporation; Voicestream PCS I, L.L.C.; Voicestream GSM I Operating Co., L.L.C.; Omnipoint Holdings, Inc.; Powertel/Kentucky, Inc.; and AT & T Communications of Illinois, Inc., Respondents-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fourth District.

Decided December 1, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. Livingston, John E. Muench, Demetrios G. Metropoulos (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, LLP, John T. Lenahan, Nancy J. Hertel, SBC Illinois, Chicago, for Illinois Bell Telephone Company.

John P. Kelliher (argued), Special Assistant Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, Chicago, for Illinois Commerce Commission.

John W. McCaffrey, Kathleen R. Pasulka-Brown, Foley & Lardner LLP, Chicago, for United States Cellular Corporation.

Owen E. MacBride, Schiff Hardin LLP, William A. Davis II, Chief Regulatory Counsel, David J. Chorzempa, Senior Attorney, AT&T Legal Department, Chicago, for AT&T Communications of Illinois, Inc.


Justice APPLETON delivered the opinion of the court:

In 2004, in administrative rule-making proceedings, the Illinois Commerce Commission (Commission) adopted a rule entitled "Wholesale Service Quality for Telecommunication Carriers" (83 Ill. Adm.Code pt. 731 (2004), as adopted at 28 Ill. Reg. 12083 (eff. September 1, 2004)). In this new rule, the Commission regulates a type of wholesale telecommunications service called "special access." 83 Ill. Adm.Code § 731...

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