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Local rules stay put

The Federal Communications Commission has denied two carriers' request that it stay its Aug. 8 interconnection rules governing local phone service competition. GTE Corp. and Southern New England Telecommunications challenged the interconnection order, claiming it violated the Fifth Amendment (Telephony, Sept. 2, page 6). The FCC concluded that no relief was justified and that negotiations for private interconnection agreements and state-supervised arbitrations now under way should not be delayed.

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