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Phone giant faces big fine

Monday, Jan. 21, 2002 | 10:46 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- SBC Communications Inc. faces a $6 million fine for not giving local-phone rivals access to its network as required by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The fine is the highest proposed by the agency.

The FCC said San Antonio-based SBC, the second-largest U.S. local-phone company and the owner of Nevada Ball in Nevada, violated conditions imposed when the agency OK'd the company's purchase of Ameritech Corp. in 1999. SBC refused to carry certain types of local-phone traffic for rivals in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, the FCC said.

The company plans to fight the fine.

"My company has acted in good faith," said Priscilla Hill Ardoin, SBC's senior vice president for federal policy.

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