United States v. SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp.; Competitive Impact Statement, Proposed Final Judgment, Complaint, Amended Stipulation, 74334-74350 [05-23814]
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Dorothy B. Fountain,
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Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
United States v. SBC Communications
Inc. and AT&T Corp.; Competitive
Impact Statement, Proposed Final
Judgment, Complaint, Amended
Stipulation
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the
Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act,
15 U.S.C. 16(b)–(h), that a Complaint,
proposed Final Judgment, Amended
Stipulation, and Competitive Impact
Statement have been filed with the U.S.
District Court for the District of
Columbia in United States v. SBC
Communications Inc., Civil Case No.
1:05CV02102 (EGS). On October 27,
2005, the United States filed a
complaint alleging that the proposed
acquisition of AT&T Corp. (‘‘AT&T’’) by
SBC Communications Inc. (‘‘SBC’’)
would violate Section 7 of the Clayton
Act, 15 U.S.C. 18, by substantially
lessening competition in the provision
of local private lines (also called
‘‘special access’’) and other
telecommunications services that rely
on local private lines in eleven
metropolitan areas: Chicago; Dallas-Fort
Worth; Detroit; Hartford-New Haven,
Connecticut; Indianapolis; Kansas City;
Los Angeles; Milawaukee; San Diego;
San Francisco-San Jose; and St. Louis.
The proposal Final Judgment requires
the defendants to divest assets in those
eleven metropolitan areas in order to
proceed with SBC’s $16 billion
acquisition of AT&T. A Competitive
Impact Statement filed by the United
States on November 16, 2005 describes
the Complaint, the proposed Final
Judgment, the industry, and the
remedies available to private litigants
who may have been injured by the
alleged violation.
Copies of the Complaint, proposed
Final Judgment, Amended Stipulation,
Competitive Impact Statement, and all
further papers filed with the Court in
connection with this Complaint will be
available for inspection at the Antitrust
Documents Group, Antitrust Division,
Liberty Place Building, Room 215, 325
7th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503
(202–514–2481), and at the Office of the
Clerk of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia. Copies of these
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materials may be obtained from the
Antitrust Division upon request and
payment of the copying fee set by
Department of Justice regulations.
Interested persons may submit
comments in writing regarding the
proposed consent decree to the United
States. Such comments must be received
by the Antitrust Division within sixty
(60) days and will be filed with the
Court by the United States. Comments
should be addressed to Nancy
Goodman, Chief, Telecommunications &
Media Enforcement Section, Antitrust
Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
1401 H Street, NW., Suite 8000,
Washington, DC 20530 (202–514–5621).
At the conclusion of the sixty (60) day
comment period, the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia may enter
the proposed consent decree upon
finding that it serves the public interest.
J. Robert Kramer II,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
In the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia
United States of America, United States
Department of Justice, Antitrust
Division, 1401 H Street, NW., Suite
8000, Washington, DC 20530, Plaintiff;
v. SBC Communications, Inc., 175 East
Houston, San Antonio, TX 78205; and
AT&T Corp., One AT&T Way,
Bedminster, NJ 07921, Defendants
Case Number 1:05CV02102
Judge: Emmet G. Sullivan
Deck Type: Antitrust
Date Stamp: 10/27/2005
Complaint
The United States of America, acting
under the direction of the Attorney
General of the United States, brings this
civil action to enjoin the merger of two
of the largest providers of
telecommunications services in the
United States, SBC Communications,
Inc. (‘‘SBC’’) and AT&T Corp. (‘‘AT&T’’),
and alleges as follows:
1. On January 30, 2005, SBC entered
into an agreement to acquire AT&T. If
approved, the transaction would create
the nation’s largest provider of
telecommunications services. Plaintiff
seeks to enjoin this transaction because
it will substantially lessen competition
for (a) Local Private Lines that connect
hundreds of commercial buildings in
SBC’s franchised territory to a carrier’s
network or other local destination, and
(b) other telecommunications services
that rely on Local Private Lines.
2. SBC and AT&T compete in the sale
of wireline telecommunications services
to retail and wholesale customers in the
United States.
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3. For hundreds of commercial
buildings in the metropolitan areas of
Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth,
Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Hartford-New
Haven, Connecticut; Indianapolis,
Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri; Los
Angeles, California; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; San Diego, California; San
Francisco-San Jose, California; and St.
Louis, Missouri, SBC and AT&T are the
only two firms that own or control a
direct wireline connection to the
building. These building connections
are used to supply voice and data
telecommunications services to business
customers. As described in this
Complaint, the proposed merger is
likely to substantially reduce
competition for Local Private Lines and
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines to those
buildings.
I. Jurisdiction and Venue
4. This action is filed by the United
States under Section 15 of the Clayton
Act, 15 U.S.C. 25, to prevent and
restrain the Defendants from violating
Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
18.
5. SBC and AT&T are engaged in
interstate commerce and in activities
substantially affecting interstate
commerce. The Court has jurisdiction
over this action pursuant to Sections 15
and 16 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 25,
26, and 28 U.S.C. 1331, 1337.
6. SBC and AT&T transact business
and are found in the District of
Columbia. Venue is proper under
Section 12 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
22, and 28 U.S.C. 1391(c).
II. The Defendants and the Transaction
7. SBC is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with its headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas. SBC, formerly
Southwestern Bell, is a regional bell
operating company (‘‘RBOC’’), formed
as part of the seven regional holding
companies to result from the breakup of
AT&T’s local telephone business in
1984. In 1996, SBC acquired another of
the seven original holding companies,
Pacific Telesis, and in 1999 it acquired
a third RBOC, Ameritech. SBC acquired
another incumbent local exchange
carrier (‘‘ILEC’’), Southern New England
Telephone Corporation, in 1998. SBC’s
wireline telecommunications operations
currently serve around 52 million
switched access lines, including 27.5
million residential and 17.6 million
business lines in 13 states. In 2004, SBC
earned approximately $36.9 billion in
revenues from its wireline services,
including almost $13 billion attributable
to business customers. SBC has fiber
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optic or copper connections to virtually
all of the commercial buildings in its
franchised territory.
8. AT&T is a corporation organized
and existing under the laws of the State
of New York, with its headquarters in
Bedminster, New Jersey. AT&T is the
nation’s largest interexchange carrier
(‘‘IXC’’), offering traditional long
distance telephone service, as well as
one of the largest competitive local
exchange carriers (‘‘CLEC’’), offering
local network exchange and access for
voice and data services. AT&T serves
consumers and businesses across the
United States and around the globe, and
owns significant local network assets
within SBC’s 13-state operating territory
including direct fiber optic connections
to numerous commercial buildings. In
2004, AT&T earned approximately $30.5
billion in revenues, including $22.6
billion from business customers.
9. Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan
of Merger dated January 30, 2005, SBC
agreed to acquire AT&T for
approximately $16 billion.
III. Trade and Commerce
A. Nature of Trade and Commerce
10. SBC owns and operates local
telecommunications networks
throughout its territory and provides
local and long distance voice and data
services to, inter alia, business
customers and other
telecommunications carriers.
11. AT&T owns and operates local
networks in dozens of metropolitan
areas in the United States, a substantial
number of which are in SBC territory.
Like SBC, AT&T also provides local and
long distance voice and data services to
business customers and other
telecommunications carriers. Significant
numbers of AT&T’s customers have
locations in SBC’s franchised territory,
and the two firms compete to serve
those wholesale and retail customers.
12. One element of the parties’ local
networks are local loops, sometimes
referred to as ‘‘last-mile’’ connections,
which are typically either copper or
fiber-optic transmission facilities that
connect commercial buildings to a
carrier’s network. These last-mile
connections are a critically important
asset for providing service to business
customers.
13. A Local Private Line is a
dedicated, point-to-point circuit offered
over copper and/or fiber-optic
transmission facilities that originates
and terminates within a single
metropolitan area and typically includes
at least one local loop. Local Private
Lines are sold at both retail (to business
customers) and wholesale (to other
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carriers). SBC refers to local Private Line
circuits as ‘‘special access.’’
14. Depending on how they are
configured, Local Private Lines can be
used to carry voice traffic, data, or a
combination of the two. Local Private
Lines may be purchased as stand-alone
products but are also an important input
to value-added voice and data
telecommunications services that are
offered to business customers.
15. For the vast majority of
commercial buildings in its territory,
SBC is the only carrier that owns a lastmile connection to the building. Thus,
in order to provide voice or data
telecommunications services to
customers in those SBC-only buildings,
competing carriers typically must lease
the connection from SBC as Local
Private Line service (special access).
16. For a small percentage of
commercial buildings (though one that
accounts for a substantial percentage of
customer demand and revenue), SBC’s
CLEC competitors have built or acquired
their own last-mile fiber-optic
connections, separate from SBC’s, to
connect their networks to the buildings.
The CLECs typically refer to buildings
with these connections as their ‘‘lit
buildings’’ or ‘‘on-net buildings.’’ Once
a CLEC has incurred the high fixed cost
to construct a last-mile connection to a
building, the CLEC can usually provide
service to business customers in the
building at a lower marginal cost than
it would otherwise be able to do if it had
to lease the connection from the RBOC.
It can also provide alternative access to
other CLECs seeking to serve business
customers in the building.
17. AT&T is among leading CLECs in
SBC’s territory in the number of
buildings it has connected with its own
last-mile fiber facilities. For hundreds of
buildings in SBC’s territory, the only
two carriers that own or control the
direct building connection are AT&T
and SBC.
18. In the hundreds of buildings
where AT&T is the only CLEC with a
last-mile connection, the merger of SBC
and AT&T would reduce the number of
carriers with an owned or controlled
last-mile connection from two to one.
B. Relevant Product Markets
19. The relevant product markers
affected by this transaction are the
markets for: (a) Local Private Lines, and
(b) voice and data telecommunications
services that rely on Local Private Lines.
20. SBC is the dominant provider of
Local Private Lines (special access) in
its franchised territory with
approximately $4.4 billion in special
access sales in 2004. AT&T is one of
SBC’s largest competitors with $311
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million in Local Private Line sales in
2004, of which over $90 million were in
SBC territory.
21. Local Private Lines are a
recognized service category among
telecommunications carriers and enduser business customers. Customers
typically purchase Local Private Lines
in standard bandwidth increments such
as DS1 (‘‘T1,’’ 1.54 megabits per
second), DS3 (44.74 megabits per
second), OC3 (155.52 megabits per
second), and higher. Local Private Lines
can interconnect with industry-standard
data networking and telephone
equipment, and can be ‘‘channelized’’ to
carry various amounts of voice and/or
data traffic.
22. Local Private Lines are distinct
from switched local exchange telephone
services. Switched local exchange lines
route calls through a voice switch in the
local carrier’s central office and do not
necessarily use a dedicated circuit.
These switched circuits do not offer the
guaranteed bandwidth, high service
levels, and security that Local Private
Lines provide.
23. Competing carriers often rely on
Local Private Line (special access)
circuits to connect an end-user
customer’s location to their networks,
enabling the competitor to supply valueadded data networking, Internet access,
local voice and long distance services to
the customer. Although carriers can
provide some types of voice and data
services over switched local exchange
lines (e.g., when an access line is presubscribed to a long distance carrier),
most large business customers do not
find those services to be a viable or costeffective substitute for voice and data
telecommunications services provided
via Local Private Lines. In the event of
a small, but significant, nontransitory
increase in price for either Local Private
Lines or voice and data
telecommunications services provided
via Local Private Lines, insufficient
customers would switch to switched
circuits to render the increase
unprofitable.
C. Relevant Geographic Markets
24. The relevant geographic markets
for both Local Private Lines, as well as
voice and data telecommunications
services that rely on Local Private Lines,
are no broader than each metropolitan
area and no more narrow than each
individual building.
IV. Anticompetitive Effects
25. SBC and AT&T are the only two
carriers that own or control a Local
Private Line connection to many
buildings in each region. The merger
would, therefore, effectively eliminate
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competition for facilities-based Local
Private Line service to those buildings,
and many retail and wholesale
customers would be longer have AT&T
as a competitive alternative to SBC.
Although other competitors might resell
Local Private Lines from SBC, those
competitors would not be as effective a
competitive constraint because SBC
would control the price of the resold
circuits. The merged firm would,
therefore, have the ability to raise price
to retail and wholesale customers of
Local Private Lines.
26. In addition, because the cost of
dedicated local access via Local Private
Line represents an important cost
component of many value-added voice
and data telecommunications services
provided over such access, by (a)
eliminating AT&T as the only
competitive alternative to SBC for such
services with its own Local Private Line
connection to hundreds of buildings,
and (b) depriving other carriers seeking
to provide such value-added services of
the only fully-facilities based wholesale
competitive alternative to SBC in those
buildings, the merger would tend to
lessen competition for retail voice and
data telecommunications services
provided over dedicated access.
V. Entry
27. Although other CLECs can,
theoretically, build their own fiber
connection to each building in response
to a price increase by the merged firm,
such entry is a difficult, timeconsuming, and expensive process.
Whether a CLEC builds a last mile
connection to a given building depends
upon many factors, including:
a. The proximity of the building to the
CLEC’s existing network
interconnection points;
b. The capacity required at the
customer’s location (and thus the
revenue opportunity);
c. The availability of capital;
d. The existence of physical barriers,
such as rivers and railbeds, between the
CLEC’s network and the customer’s
location; and
e. The ease or difficulty of securing
the necessary consent from building
owners and municipal officials.
28. The costs of building a last-mile
connection vary substantially for each
location. Even if all the above criteria
favor the construction of a last-mile
connection in a particular case, a single
such connection typically costs tens,
sometimes hundreds, of thousands of
dollars to build and activate. Thus,
CLECs will typically only build in to a
particular building after they have
secured a customer contract of sufficient
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size to justify the anticipated
construction costs for that building.
29. Although entry may occur in
response to a post-merger price increase
in some of buildings where AT&T is the
only connected CLEC, the conditions for
entry are unlikely to be met in hundreds
of those buildings. Thus, entry is
unlikely to eliminate the competitive
harm that would likely result from the
proposed merger.
VI. Violation Alleged
30. The United States hereby
incorporates paragraphs 1 through 29.
31. Pursuant to an Agreement and
Plan of Merger dated January 30, 2005,
SBC and AT&T intend to merge their
businesses.
32. The effect of the proposed
acquisition of AT&T by SBC would be
to lessen competition substantially in
interstate trade and commerce in
numerous geographic markets for (a)
Local Private Lines and (b) voice and
data telecommunications services that
rely on Local Private Lines, in violation
of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15
U.S.C. §18.
33. The transaction would likely have
the following effects, among others:
a. competition in the provision and
sale of Local Private Lines in numerous
geographic markets would be eliminated
or substantially lessened;
b. competition in the provision and
sale of voice and data
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines in numerous
geographic markets would be
substantially lessened; and
c. prices for Local Private Lines, as
well as voice and data
telecommunications services provided
via Local Private Lines, would likely
increase to levels above those that
would prevail absent the merger.
VII. Prayer for Relief
The United States requests:
34. That SBC’s proposed acquisition
of AT&T be adjudged to violate Section
7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18;
35. That Defendants be permanently
enjoined and restrained from carrying
out the Agreement and Plan of Merger
dated January 30, 2005 or from entering
into or carrying out any agreement,
understanding, or plan by which SBC
would merge with or acquire AT&T, its
capital stock or any of its assets;
36. That the United States be awarded
costs of this action; and
37. That the United States have such
other relief as the Court may deem just
and proper.
Dated: October 27, 2005.
Respectfully submitted,
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For Plaintiff United States:
Thomas O. Barnett,
Acting Assistant Attorney General.
J. Bruce McDonald,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
J. Robert Krammer II,
Director of Operations.
Nancy M. Goodman,
Chief, Telecommunications and Media
Enforcement Section (D.C. Bar No 251694).
Laury E. Bobbish,
Assistant Chief, Telecommunications and
Media Enforcement Section.
Lawrence M. Frankel, (D.C. Bar No. 441532).
Claude F. Scott, Jr. (D.C. Bar No. 414906).
Mary N. Strimel (D.C. Bar No. 455303).
Matthew C. Hammond
Lauren J. Fishbein (D.C. Bar No. 451889).
Conrad J. Smucker (D.C. Bar No. 434590).
Jeremiah M. Luongo
Jared A. Hughes
David T. Blonder
William Lindsey Wilson
William B. Michael
Trial Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice,
Antitrust Division, Telecommunications
and Media Enforcement Section, 1401 H
Street, NW., Suite 8000, Washington, DC
20530. Telephone (202) 514–5621.
Facsimile: (202) 514–6381.
In the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia
United States of America, Plaintiff; v.
SBC Communications, Inc. and AT&T
Corp., Defendants
Civil Action No. 1:05CV02102 (EGS)
Final Judgment
Whereas, plaintiff, United States of
America, filed its Complaint on October
27, 2005, plaintiff and defendants, SBC
Communications Inc. (‘‘SBC’’) and
AT&T Corp. (‘‘AT&T’’), by their
respective attorneys, have consented to
the entry of this Final Judgment without
trial or adjudication of any issue of fact
or law, and without this Final Judgment
constituting any evidence against or
admission by an party regarding any
issue of fact or law;
And Whereas, defendants agree to be
bound by the provisions of this Final
Judgment pending its approval by the
Court;
And Whereas, the essence of this
Final Judgment is the prompt and
certain divestiture of certain rights or
assets by the defendants to assure that
competition is not substantially
lessened;
And Whereas, plaintiff requires
defendants to make certain divestitures
for the purpose of remedying the loss of
competition alleged in the Complaint;
And Whereas, defendants have
represented to the United States that the
divestitures required below can and will
be made and that defendants will later
raise no claim of hardship or difficulty
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as grounds for asking the Court to
modify any of the divestiture provisions
contained below;
Now Therefore, before any testimony
is taken, without trial or adjudication of
any issue of fact or law, and upon
consent of the parties, it its ordered,
adjudged, and decreed:
I. Jurisdiction
This Court has jurisdiction over the
subject matter of and each of the parties
to this action. The Complaint states a
claim upon which relief may be granted
against defendants under Section 7 of
the Clayton Act, as amended (15 U.S.C.
18).
II. Definitions
As used in this Final Judgment:
A. ‘‘SBC’’ means defendant SBC
Communications Inc., a Delaware
corporation with its headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas, its successors and
assigns, and its subsidiaries, divisions,
groups, affiliates, partnerships and joint
ventures, and their directors, officers,
managers, agents, and employees.
B. ‘‘At&T’’ means defendant AT&T
Corp., a New York corporation with its
headquarters in Bedminster, New Jersey,
its successors and assigns, and its
subsidiaries, divisions, groups,
affiliates, partnerships and joint
ventures, and their directors, officers,
managers, agents, and employees.
C. ‘‘Acquirer’’ or ‘‘Acquirers’’ means
the entity or entities to whom
defendants divest the Divestiture Assets.
D. ‘‘Divestiture Assets’’ means IRUs
for Lateral Connections to the locations
listed in Appendix A and sufficient
transport as described below and all
additional rights necessary to enable
those assets to be used by the Acquirer
to provide telecommunications services.
The Divestiture Assets shall include
IRUs for transport facilities sufficient to
connect the Lateral Connections to
locations mutually agreed upon by
defendants and the Acquirer, subject to
the approval of the United States in its
sole judgment. The term ‘‘Divestiture
Assets’’ shall be construed broadly to
accomplish the complete divestiture of
assets and the purposes of this Final
Judgment and is subject to the
following:
(1) With the approval of the United
States, in its sole discretion, in locations
listed in Appendix A for which AT&T’s
interest in the fiber serving the location
is an IRU rather than full ownership and
if the United States determines that
such an alternative disposition will
meet the aims of this Final Judgment,
defendants may (1) Enter into a dark
fiber service agreement or other
commercial arrangement for the Lateral
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Connections and associated transport
with the Acquirer or (2) relinquish its
IRU rights in the greater of (i) eight (8)
fiber strands or (ii) one-half of the
currently unused fiber strands in
AT&T’s facilities serving the locations,
measured at the time of the filing of the
Complaint, back to the owner of the
fiber; and
(2) With the approval of the United
States, in its sole discretion, and at the
Acquirer’s option, the Divestiture Assets
may be modified to exclude assets and
rights that are not necessary to meet the
aims of this Final Judgment.
E. ‘‘IRU’’ means indefeasible right of
use, a long-term leasehold interest that
gives the holder the right to use
specified strands of fiber in a
telecommunications facility. An IRU
granted by defendants under this Final
Judgment shall (1) Be for a minimum of
10 years; (2) not require the Acquirer to
pay monthly or other recurring fee to
preserve or make use of its rights; (3)
include all additional rights and
interests necessary to enable the IRU to
be used by the Acquirer to provide
telecommunications services; and (4)
contain other commercially reasonable
and customary terms, including terms
for payment to the grantor for ancillary
services, such as maintenance fees on a
per occurrence basis; and (5) not
unreasonably limit the right of the
Acquirer to use the asset as it wishes
(e.g., the Acquirer shall be permitted to
splice into the IRU fiber, though such
splice points must be mutually agreed
upon by Defendants and Acquirer).
F. ‘‘Lateral Connection’’ means fiber
strands from the point of entry of the
building to the splice point with fiber
used to serve different buildings and
shall consist of the greater of (1) eight
(8) fiber strands or (2) one-half of the
currently unused fiber strands in
AT&T’s facilities serving the building
measured at the time of the filing of the
complaint. The fiber strands may be
provided from those owned or
controlled by either SBC or AT&T, as
mutually agreed by defendants and
Acquirer.
III. Applicability
A. This Final Judgment applies to
SBC and AT&T, as defined above, and
all other persons in active concert or
participation with any of them who
receive actual notice of this Final
Judgment by personal service or
otherwise.
B. Defendants shall require, as a
condition of the sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of
their assets or of lesser business units
that include the Divestiture Assets, that
the purchasers agree to be bound by the
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provisions of this Final Judgment,
provided, however, that defendants
need to obtain such an agreement from
the Acquirers.
IV. Divestitures
A. Defendants are ordered and
directed, within 120 calendar days after
the closing of SBC’s acquisition of
AT&T, or five (5) days after notice of the
entry of this Final Judgment by the
Court, whichever is later, to divest the
Divestiture Assets in a manner
consistent with this Final Judgment to
an acquirer and on terms acceptable to
the United States in its sole discretion.
The United States , in its sole discretion,
may agree to one or more extensions of
this time period not to exceed sixty (60)
days in total, and shall notify the Court
in such circumstances. If approval or
consent from any government unit is
necessary with respect to divestiture of
the Divestiture Assets by defendants or
the Divestiture Trustee and if
applications or requests for approval or
consent have been filed with the
appropriate governmental unit within
120 calendar days after the closing of
SBC’s acquisition of AT&T, but an order
or other dispositive action on such
applications has not been issued before
the end of the period permitted for
divestiture, the period shall be extended
with respect to divestiture of those
Divestiture Assets for which
governmental approval or consent has
not been issued until five (5) days after
such approval or consent is received.
Defendants agree to use their best efforts
to divest the Divestiture Assets and to
seek all necessary regulatory or other
approvals or consents necessary for
such divestitures as expeditiously as
possible. This Final Judgment does not
limit the Federal Communications
Commission’s exercise of its regulatory
powers and process with respect to the
Divestiture Assets. Authorization by the
Federal Communications Commission
to conduct the divestiture of a
Divestiture Asset in a particular manner
will not modify any of the requirements
of this decree.
B. In accomplishing the divestitures
ordered by this Final Judgment,
defendants promptly shall make known,
by usual and customary means, the
availability of the Divestiture Assets.
Defendants shall inform any person
making inquiry regarding a possible
purchase of the Divestiture Assets that
they are being divested pursuant to this
Final Judgment and provide that person
with a copy of this Final Judgment.
Defendants shall offer to furnish to all
prospective Acquirers, subject to
customary confidentiality assurances,
all information and documents relating
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to the Divestiture Assets customarily
provided in a due diligence process
except such information or documents
subject to the attorney-client or workproduct privileges. Defendants shall
make available such information to the
United States at the same time that such
information is made available to any
other person.
C. Defendants shall permit
prospective Acquirers of the Divestiture
Assets to have reasonable access to
personnel and to make inspections of
the physical facilities of the Divestiture
Assets; access to any and all
environmental, zoning, and other permit
documents and information; and access
to any and all financial, operational, or
other documents and information
customarily provided as part of a due
diligence process.
D. Defendants shall warrant to all
Acquirers of the Divestiture Assets that
each asset will be operation on the date
of sale.
E. Defendants shall not take any
action that will impede in any way the
permitting, operation, or divestiture of
the Divestiture Assets.
F. At the option of the Acquirers,
defendants shall enter into a contract for
a period of up to one (1) year for
transition services customarily
necessary to maintain, operate,
provision, monitor, or otherwise
support the Divestiture Assets. The
terms and conditions of any contractual
arrangement meant to satisfy this
provision must be reasonably related to
market conditions.
G. Defendants shall warrant to the
Acquirer of the Divestiture Assets that
there are no material defects in the
environmental, zoning, or other permits
pertaining to the operation of each asset,
and that following the sale of the
Divestiture Assets, defendants will not
undertake, directly or indirectly, any
challenges to the environmental, zoning,
or other permits relating to the
operation of the Divestiture Assets.
H. Unless the United States otherwise
consents in writing, the divestitures
pursuant to Section IV, or by trustee
appointed pursuant to Section V, of this
Final Judgment, shall include the entire
Divestiture Assets, and shall be
accomplished in such a way as to satisfy
the United States, in its sole discretion,
that the Divestiture Assets can and will
be used by the Acquirer as part of a
viable, ongoing telecommunications
business. Divestiture of the Divestiture
Assets may be made to more than one
Acquirer, provided that (i) all
Divestiture Assets in a given
metropolitan area are divested to a
single Acquirer unless otherwise
approved by the United States, in its
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sole discretion, and (ii) in each instance
it is demonstrated to the sole
satisfaction of the United States that the
Divestiture Assets will remain viable
and the divestiture of such assets will
remedy the competitive harm alleged in
the Complaint. The divestitures,
whether pursuant to Section IV or
Section V of this Final Judgment,
(1) shall be made to an Acquirer (or
Acquirers) that, in the United State’s
sole judgment, has the intent and
capability (including the necessary
managerial, operation, technical, and
financial capability) of competing
effectively in the provision of
telecommunications services; and
(2) shall be accomplished so as to
satisfy the United States, in its sole
discretion, that none of the terms of any
agreement between an Acquirer (or
Acquirers) and defendants gives
defendants the ability unreasonably to
raise the Acquirer’s costs, to lower the
Acquier’s efficiency, or otherwise to
interfere in the ability of the Acquirer to
compete effectively.
I. To the extent leases, contracts,
agreements, intellectual property rights,
licenses, or other commitments with
third-parties are not assignable or
transferrable without the consent of the
licensor or other third parties,
defendants shall use their best efforts to
obtain those consents.
V. Appointment of Trustee
A. If defendants have not divested the
Divestiture Assets within the time
period specified in Section IV(A),
defendants shall notify the United
States of that fact in writing, specifically
identifying the Divestiture Assets that
have not been divested. Upon
application of the United States, the
Court shall appoint a trustee selected by
the United States and approved by the
Court to effect the divestiture of the
Divestiture Assets.
B. After the appointment of a trustee
becomes effective, only the trustee shall
have the right to sell the Divestiture
Assets. The trustees shall have the
power and authority to accomplish the
divestiture to Acquirers acceptable to
the United States, in its sole judgment,
at such price and on such terms as are
then obtainable upon reasonable effort
by the trustee, subject to the provisions
of Sections IV, V, and VI of this Final
Judgment, and shall have such other
powers as this Court deems appropriate.
Subject to Section V(D) of this Final
Judgment, the trustee may hire at the
cost and expense of defendants any
investment bankers, attorneys, technical
experts, or other agents, who shall be
solely accountable to the trustee,
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reasonably necessary in the trustee’s
judgment to assist in the divestiture.
C. Defendants shall not object to a sale
by the trustee on any ground other than
the trustee’s malfeasance. Any such
objections by defendants must be
conveyed in writing to the United States
and the trustee within ten (10) calendar
days after the trustee has provided the
notice required under Section VI.
D. The trustee shall serve at the cost
and expense of defendants, on such
terms and conditions as the plaintiff
approves, and shall account for all
monies derived from the sale of the
assets sold by the trustee and all costs
and expenses so incurred. After
approval by the Court of the trustee’s
accounting, including fees for its
services and those of any professionals
and agents retained by the trustee, all
remaining money shall be paid to
defendants and the trust shall then be
terminated. The compensation of the
trustee and any professionals and agents
retained by the trustee shall be
reasonable in light of the value of the
Divestiture Assets and based on a fee
arrangement providing the trustee with
an incentive based on the price and
terms of the divestiture and the speed
with which it is accomplished, but
timeliness is paramount.
E. Defendants shall use their best
efforts to assist the trustee in
accomplishing the required divestitures,
including their best efforts to effect all
necessary regulatory or other approvals
or consents and will provide necessary
representations or warranties as
appropriate, related to the sale of the
Divestiture Assets. The trustee and any
consultants, accountants, attorneys,
technical experts, and other persons
retained by the trustee shall have full
and complete access to the personnel,
books, records, and facilities related to
the Divestiture Assets, and defendants
shall develop financial and other
information relevant to the Divestiture
Assets as the trustee may reasonably
request, subject to reasonable protection
for trade secret or other confidential
research, development, or commercial
information. Defendants shall take no
action to interfere with or to impede the
trustee’s accomplishment of the
divestiture.
F. After its appointment, the trustee
shall file monthly reports with the
United States and the Court setting forth
the trustee’s efforts to accomplish the
divestiture ordered under this Final
Judgment. To the extent such reports
contain information that the trustee
deems confidential, such reports shall
not be filed in the public docket of the
Court. Such reports shall include the
name, address, and telephone number of
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each person who, during the preceding
month, made an offer to acquire,
expressed an interest in acquiring,
entered into negotiations to acquire, or
was contacted or made an inquiry about
acquiring, any interest in the Divestiture
Assets, and shall describe in detail each
contact with any such person. The
trustee shall maintain full records of all
efforts made to divest the Divestiture
Assets.
G. If the trustee has not accomplished
such divestiture within six months after
its appointment, the trustee shall
promptly file with the Court a report
setting forth (1) The trustee’s efforts to
accomplish the required divestiture, (2)
the reasons, in the trustee’s judgment,
why the required divestiture has not
been accomplished, and (3) the trustee’s
recommendations. To the extent such
reports contain information that the
trustee deems confidential, such reports
shall not be filed in the public docket
of the Court. The trustee shall at the
same time furnish such report to the
plaintiff who shall have the right to
make additional recommendations
consistent with the purpose of the trust.
The Court thereafter shall enter such
orders as it shall deem appropriate to
carry out the purpose of the Final
Judgment, which may, if necessary,
include extending the trust and the term
of the trustee’s appointment by a period
requested by the United States.
H. In addition, notwithstanding any
provision to the contrary, the United
States, in its sole discretion, may require
defendants to include additional assets,
or allow, with the written approval of
the United States, defendants to
substitute substantially similar assets,
which substantially relate to the
Divestiture Assets to be divested by the
trustee to facilitate prompt divestiture to
an acceptable Acquirer or Acquirers.
VI. Notice of Proposed Divestiture
A. Within two (2) business days
following execution of a definitive
divestiture agreement, defendants or the
trustee, whichever is then responsible
for effecting the divestiture required
herein, shall notify the United States of
any proposed divestiture required by
Section IV or V of this Final Judgment.
If the trustee is responsible, it shall
similarly notify defendants. The notice
shall set forth the details of the
proposed divestiture and list the name,
address, and telephone number of each
person not previously identified who
offered or expressed an interest in or
desire to acquire any ownership interest
in the Divestiture Assets, together with
full details of the same.
B. Within fifteen (15) calendar days of
receipt by the United States of such
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notice, the United States may request
from defendants, the proposed Acquirer
or Acquirers, any other third party, or
the trustee, if applicable, additional
information concerning the proposed
divestiture, the proposed Acquirer or
Acquirers, and any other potential
Acquirer. Defendants and the trustee
shall furnish any additional information
requested within fifteen (15) calendar
days of the receipt of the request, unless
the parties shall otherwise agree.
C. Within thirty (30) calendar days
after receipt of the notice or within
twenty (20) calendar days after the
United States has been provided the
additional information requested from
defendants, the proposed Acquirer or
Acquirers, any third party, and the
trustee, whichever is later, the United
States shall provide written notice to
defendants and the trustee, if there is
one, stating whether or not it objects to
the prosed divestiture. If the United
States provides written notice that it
does not object, the divestiture may be
consummated, subject only to
defendants’ limited right to object to the
sale under Section V(C) of this Final
Judgment. Absent written notice that the
United States does not object to the
proposed Acquirer or upon objection by
the United States, a divestiture
proposed under Section IV or Section V
shall not be consummated. Upon
objection by defendants under Section
V(C), a divestiture proposed under
Section V shall not be consummated
unless approved by the Court.
VII. Financing
Defendants shall not finance all or
any part of any part of any purchase
made pursuant to Section IV or V of this
Final Judgment.
VIII. Preservation of Assets
Until the divestiture required by this
Final Judgment has been accomplished,
defendants shall take all steps necessary
to comply with the Stipulation signed
by defendants and the United States.
Defendants shall take no action that
would jeopardize the divestiture
ordered by this Court.
IX. Affidavits
A. Within twenty (20) calendar days
of the filing of the Complaint in this
matter, and every thirty (30) calendar
days thereafter until the divestiture has
been completed under Section IV or V,
defendants shall deliver to the United
States an affidavit as to the face and
manner of its compliance with Section
IV or V of this Final Judgment. Each
such affidavit shall include the name,
address, and telephone number of each
person who, during the preceding thirty
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(30) days, made an offer to acquire,
expressed an interest in acquiring,
entered into negotiations to acquire, or
was contacted or made an inquiry about
acquiring, any interest in the Divestiture
Assets, and shall describe in detail each
contact with any such person during
that period. Each such affidavit shall
also include a description of the efforts
defendants have taken to solicit buyers
for the Divestiture Assets, and to
provide required information to
prospective Acquirers, including the
limitations, if any, on such information.
Assuming the information set forth in
the affidavit is true and complete, any
objection by the United States to
information provided by defendants,
including limitation on information,
shall be made within fourteen (14)
calendar days of the receipt of such
affidavit.
B. Within twenty (20) calendar days
of the filing of the Complaint in this
matter, defendants shall deliver to the
United States an affidavit that describes
in reasonable detail all actions
defendants have taken and all steps
defendants have implemented on an
ongoing basis to comply with Section
VIII of this Final Judgment. Defendants
shall deliver to the United States an
affidavit describing any changes to the
efforts and actions outlined in
defendants’ earlier affidavits filed
pursuant to this section within fifteen
(15) calendar days after the change is
implemented.
C. Defendants shall keep all records of
all efforts made to preserve and divest
the Divestiture Assets until one year
after such divestiture has been
completed.
X. Compliance Inspection
A. For the purposes of determining or
securing compliance with this Final
Judgment, or of determining whether
the Final Judgment should be modified
or vacated, and subject to any legally
recognized privilege, from time to time
duly authorized representatives of the
United States Department of Justice,
including consultants and other persons
retained by the United States, shall,
upon written request of a duly
authorized representative of the
Assistant Attorney General in charge of
the Antitrust Division, and on
reasonable notice to defendants, be
permitted:
(1) Access during defendants’ office
hours to inspect and copy, or at
plaintiff’s option, to require that
defendants provide copies of, all books,
ledgers, accounts, records and
documents in the possession, custody,
or control of defendants, relating to any
matters contained in this Final
Judgment; and
(2) To interview, either informally or
on the record, defendants’ officers,
employees, or agents, who may have
their individual counsel present,
regarding such matters. The interviews
shall be subject to the reasonable
convenience of the interviewee and
without restraint or interference by
defendants.
B. Upon the written request of a duly
authorized representative of the
Assistant Attorney General in charge of
the Antitrust Division, defendants shall
submit written reports, under oath if
requested, relating to any of the matters
contained in this Final Judgment as may
be requested.
C. No information or documents
obtained by the means provided in this
section shall be divulged by the United
States to any person other than an
authorized representative of the
executive branch of the United States,
except in the course of legal proceedings
to which the United States is a party
(including grand jury proceedings), or
for the purpose of securing compliance
with this Final Judgment, or as
otherwise required by law.
D. If at the time information or
documents are furnished by defendants
to the United States, defendants
represent and identify in writing the
material in any such information or
documents to which a claim of
protection may be asserted under rule
26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure, and defendants mark each
pertinent page of such material,
‘‘Subejct to claim of protection under
rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure,’’ then the United States
shall give defendants ten (10) calendar
days notice prior to divulging such
material in any legal proceeding (other
then grand jury proceedings).
XI. No Reacquisition
Defendants may not reacquire (or
lease back without the approval of the
United States, in its sole discretion) any
part of the Divestiture Assets during the
term of this Final Judgment.
XII. Retention of Jurisdiction
This Court retains jurisdiction to
enable any party to this Final Judgment
to apply to this Court at any time for
further orders and directions as may be
necessary or appropriate to carry out or
construe this Final Judgment, to modify
any of its provisions, to enforce
compliance, and to punish violations of
its provisions.
XIII. Expiration of Final Judgment
Unless this Court grants an extension,
this Final Judgment shall expire ten
years from the date of its entry.
XIV. Public Interest Determination
The parties have complied with the
requirements of the Antitrust
Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C.
16, including making copies available to
the public of this Final Judgment, the
Competitive Impact Statement, and any
comments thereon and the United
States’ response to comments. Based
upon the record before the Court, which
includes the Competitive Impact
Statement and any comments and
response to comments filed with the
Court, entry of this Final Judgment is in
the public interest.
Date:
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Court approval subject to procedures of
Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, 15
U.S.C. 16.
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United States District Judge
APPENDIX A
Address
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Zip
Renaissance Blvd ............................................
10 N Martingale Rd .........................................
10024 Skokie Blvd ...........................................
11 S La Salle St ..............................................
1400 Waukegan Rd .........................................
1666 E Touhy Ave ...........................................
200 Wilmot Rd .................................................
2300 60th St ....................................................
2320 N Kenmore Ave ......................................
243 S Wabash Ave .........................................
26 W 171 Roosevelt Rd ..................................
Oakbrook Terrace ...................
Schaumburg ............................
Skokie .....................................
Chicago ...................................
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Address
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3050 Highland Pkwy ........................................
3060 W Salt Creek Ln .....................................
340 N Milwaukee Ave .....................................
50 S La Salle St ..............................................
600 N Rte 45 ...................................................
610 S Canal St ................................................
610 S Maple Ave .............................................
640 N La Salle Dr ............................................
7000 High Grove Blvd .....................................
770 N Halsted St .............................................
7955 S Cass Ave ............................................
9700 S Cass Ave ............................................
10935 Estate Ln ..............................................
1145 Empire Central Pl ...................................
1233 Regal Row ..............................................
12750 Merit Dr .................................................
12800 Abrams Rd ...........................................
1330 River Bend Rd ........................................
13510 N Central Expy .....................................
13536 N Central Expy .....................................
13725 Montfort Dr ...........................................
1508 E Mockingbird Ln ...................................
1701 N Greenville Ave ....................................
1900 S Central Expy .......................................
2220 Campbell Creek Blvd .............................
2280 Greenville Ave ........................................
2534 Royal Ln .................................................
2735 N Stemmons Freeway ............................
3890 W Northwest Hwy ...................................
3911 Sthwy 12 Loop .......................................
3939 Valley View .............................................
4001 Airport Frwy Rt #59 ................................
4201 Spring Valley Rd ....................................
4849 W Illinois .................................................
6011 Lemmon Ave ..........................................
7517 Campbell Rd ...........................................
7834 C F Hawn Fwy .......................................
7920 Belt Line Rd ............................................
801 Main St .....................................................
12225 Stephens Rd .........................................
12345 Nine Mile ..............................................
1235 E Big Beaver Rd ....................................
18101 Oakwood Blvd ......................................
20 Oak Hollow St ............................................
201 W Fort St ..................................................
2050 Auburn Rd ..............................................
25400 Denso ...................................................
26400 Southfield Rd ........................................
26600 Telegraph Rd ........................................
27500 Drake Rd ..............................................
29129 Ecorse Rd .............................................
32991 Hamilton Ct E .......................................
3800 Howard Rd .............................................
38281 Schoolcraft Rd ......................................
3937 Campus Dr .............................................
40 Oak Hollow St ............................................
500 Griswold St ...............................................
500 Kirts Rd .....................................................
500 Renaissance Ctr .......................................
911 W Big Beaver Rd .....................................
1 Atlantic St .....................................................
10 Univac Ln ...................................................
102 Addison Rd ...............................................
121 Wawarme St .............................................
125 Powder Forest Dr .....................................
199 Benson Rd ................................................
20 Old Windsor Rd ..........................................
200 Grove St ...................................................
2000 Day Hill Rd .............................................
3 Waterside Xing .............................................
300 Kensington Ave ........................................
Kenosha ..................................
Downers Grove .......................
Arlington Heights ....................
Vernon Hills ............................
Chicago ...................................
Libertyville ...............................
Chicago ...................................
Oak Park .................................
Chicago ...................................
Burr Ridge ...............................
Chicago ...................................
Darien .....................................
Argonne ..................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Richardson ..............................
Dallas ......................................
Richardson ..............................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Farmers Branch ......................
For Worth ................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Dallas ......................................
Warren ....................................
Warren ....................................
Troy .........................................
Dearborn .................................
Southfield ................................
Detroit .....................................
Auburn Hills ............................
Southfield ................................
Lathrup Village ........................
Southfield ................................
Farmington Hills ......................
Romulus ..................................
Farmington Hills ......................
Farmington Hills ......................
Livonia .....................................
Pontiac ....................................
Southfield ................................
Detroit .....................................
Troy .........................................
Detroit .....................................
Troy .........................................
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Windsor ...................................
Windsor ...................................
Hartford ...................................
Simsbury .................................
Middlebury ..............................
Bloomfield ...............................
New Haven .............................
Windsor ...................................
Windsor ...................................
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Dallas-Fort Worth.
Dallas-Fort Worth.
Dallas-Fort Worth.
Dallas-Fort Worth.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Detroit-Ann Arbor.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
Hartford-New-Haven.
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32 Valley St .....................................................
45 Glover Ave ..................................................
500 Day Hill Rd ...............................................
550 Marshall Phelps Rd ..................................
7 Waterside Xing .............................................
71 Deerfield Ln ................................................
11313 US Pkwy ...............................................
1481 W 10th St ...............................................
1600 Albany St ................................................
1800 N Meridian St .........................................
200 W 103rd St ...............................................
250N Shadeland Ave ......................................
302 S State Ave ..............................................
307 Sthwy 37 ...................................................
3120 N Post Rd ...............................................
3210 E 96th St ................................................
3266 N Meridian St .........................................
3308 N Mitthoeffer Rd .....................................
402 Kentucky Ave ...........................................
4550 Victory Ln ...............................................
46 E Ohio St ....................................................
4880 Century Plaza Rd ...................................
4919 W 78th St ...............................................
5000 W 86th St ...............................................
5380 W 81St ....................................................
5520 W 76th St ...............................................
5804 Churchman Byp ......................................
5940 W Raymond St .......................................
6270 Corporate Dr ...........................................
6612 E 75th St ................................................
6640 Parkdale Pl .............................................
6666 E 75th St ................................................
6810 N Shadeland Ave ...................................
6850 Parkdale Pl .............................................
700 W 16th St .................................................
7240 Shadeland Station Way ..........................
7301 Woodland Dr ..........................................
7444 Shadeland Station Way ..........................
7445 Company Dr ...........................................
755 E Main St ..................................................
8101 Clearvista Pkwy ......................................
8111 S Emerson Ave ......................................
8320 Allison Point Trl ......................................
8450 Northwest Blvd .......................................
8555 River Rd .................................................
8600 Allisonville Rd .........................................
8600 Roberts Dr N ..........................................
8650 Commerce Park Pl .................................
8677 Logo 7 Ct ................................................
8802 N Meridan St ..........................................
8820 S Meridan St ..........................................
8868 E 56th St ................................................
8940 Vincennes Cir .........................................
9100 Purdue Rd ..............................................
941 N Meridan St ............................................
9601 E 21st St .................................................
9650 E Washington St ....................................
9660 E Washington St ....................................
9704 Beaumont Rd .........................................
1 Royal Way ....................................................
1 Ward Pkwy ...................................................
1000 Carondelet Dr .........................................
1000 Walnut St ................................................
10236 Marion Park Dr .....................................
104 W 42nd St ................................................
10500 Barkley St .............................................
10525 N Ambassador Dr .................................
10561 Barkley St .............................................
10910 W 87th St .............................................
10930 N Pomona St ........................................
1100 Rockhurst Rd ..........................................
11020 N Ambassador Dr .................................
Bristol ......................................
Norwalk ...................................
Windsor ...................................
Windsor ...................................
Windsor ...................................
Meriden ...................................
Fishers ....................................
Indianapolis .............................
Beech Grove ...........................
Indianapolis .............................
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Kansas City.
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112 W 9th St ...................................................
11221 Roe Ave ................................................
11401 Lamar ...................................................
11600 College Blvd .........................................
12076 W Santa Fe Dr .....................................
12851 Foster St ...............................................
12900 Foster St ...............................................
1300 Cherry .....................................................
1300 Summit St ...............................................
13202 W 98th St .............................................
1414 Genessee St ...........................................
14303 W 95th St .............................................
14502 W 105th St ...........................................
1500 Meadow Lake Pkwy ...............................
15095 W 116th St ...........................................
1524 N Corrington Ave ....................................
15940 111th Blvd ............................................
16011 College Blvd .........................................
1616 N Corrington ...........................................
1801 Main St ...................................................
1828 Walnut St ................................................
1900 W 47th Pl ................................................
1901 W 47 .......................................................
1925 Baltimore Ave .........................................
1925 Central ....................................................
2 Brush Creek Blvd .........................................
20 W 9th St .....................................................
2000 County ....................................................
2000 Shawnee Mission Pkwy .........................
210 W 10th St .................................................
2400/2401 Gillham Rd .....................................
2501 McGee ....................................................
3130 Broadway St ...........................................
323 W 8th ........................................................
3420 Broadway Rd ..........................................
3900 Rainbow Blvd .........................................
400 E 9th St ....................................................
4739 Belleview Ave .........................................
4800 Main St ...................................................
5121 E Front St ...............................................
5700 Broadmoor St .........................................
5750 W 95th St ...............................................
5808 W 110th St .............................................
601 E 12th Ave ................................................
6201 College Blvd ...........................................
6300 Lamar Ave ..............................................
6407 Roanridge ...............................................
6900 Squibb Rd ...............................................
6950 Squibb Rd ...............................................
7015 College Blvd ...........................................
7045 College Blvd ...........................................
7223 W 95th St ...............................................
7300 College Blvd ...........................................
7400 College Blvd ...........................................
7401 W 129th St .............................................
7401 NW Tiffany Springs Pkwy ......................
7500 College Blvd ...........................................
7800 W 110th St .............................................
7950 College Blvd ...........................................
801 Walnut St ..................................................
8101 Lenexa Dr ...............................................
818 Grand Blvd ...............................................
8228 Flagor Ave ..............................................
8281 NW 107 St ..............................................
8300 College Blvd ...........................................
8320 Ward Pkwy .............................................
8400 NW 107th Ter .........................................
8425 Quivira ....................................................
8700 State Line Rd .........................................
8900 State Line Rd .........................................
9219 Quivira Rd ..............................................
9435 Holmes Rd ..............................................
Kansas City .............................
Leawood .................................
Overland Park .........................
Overland Park .........................
Lenexa ....................................
Overland Park .........................
Overland Park .........................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
Lenexa ....................................
Kansas City .............................
Lenexa ....................................
Lenexa ....................................
Kansas City .............................
Olathe .....................................
Kansas City .............................
Lenexa ....................................
Lenexa ....................................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
Westwood ...............................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
Kansas City .............................
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Mission Woods .......................
Kansas City .............................
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9700 Commerce Pkwy ....................................
1 MacArthur Pl .................................................
1149 S Broadway St .......................................
1375 Sunflower Ave ........................................
1615 N Lake Ave .............................................
17682 Cowan Ave ...........................................
1830 E Warner Ave .........................................
1901 W Malvern Ave .......................................
2049 Century Park E .......................................
2060 E Imperial Hwy .......................................
2100 E Grand Ave ...........................................
21300 Victory Blvd ..........................................
21550 Oxnard St .............................................
21600 Oxnard St .............................................
21650 Oxnard St .............................................
21700 Oxnard St .............................................
2230 E Imperial Hwy .......................................
2260 E Imperial Hwy .......................................
27700 Medical Center Rd ...............................
333 S Anita Dr .................................................
3440 Flair Dr ....................................................
3530 Wilshire Blvd ...........................................
376 Valencia Ave ............................................
5230 Pacific Concourse Dr .............................
550 Continental ...............................................
5800 W Sunset Blvd ........................................
5901 De Soto Ave ...........................................
601 W 5th St ...................................................
610 Newport Ctr Dr .........................................
620 Newport Ctr Dr .........................................
6300 Canoga Ave ............................................
6320 Canoga Ave ............................................
660 Newport Ctr Dr .........................................
7001 S Central Ave .........................................
800 N State College Blvd ................................
830 N La Brea Ave ..........................................
950 S Grand Ave .............................................
10920 W Lincoln Ave ......................................
11200 W Parkland Ave ...................................
1126 S 70th St ................................................
11270 W Park Pl .............................................
11300 W Burleigh St .......................................
1190 W Rawson Ave .......................................
12000 W Park Pl .............................................
1233 N Mayfair Rd ..........................................
1563 S 101 ......................................................
15740 W Cleveland Ave ..................................
18500 W Corporate Dr ....................................
1912 S 82nd St ...............................................
230 W Wells St ................................................
2861 S James Dr ............................................
432 E Kilbourn Ave .........................................
433 E Michigan St ...........................................
4701 W Greenfield Ave ...................................
507 E Michigan St ...........................................
5151 W State St ..............................................
525 N 6th St ....................................................
5300 Sthwy 38 .................................................
5315 S 3rd St ..................................................
555 Air Cargo Way ..........................................
600 E Greenfield Ave ......................................
635 S 28th St ..................................................
6801 N Yates Rd .............................................
6980 N Port Washington Rd ...........................
7930 N Faulkner Rd ........................................
800 W Wells St ................................................
8112 W Bluemound Rd ...................................
8213 Durand Ave ............................................
8332 Corporate Dr ...........................................
8900 N Arbon Dr .............................................
9015 W Maple St .............................................
9201 Washington Ave .....................................
Lenexa ....................................
Santa Ana ...............................
Los Angeles ............................
Costa Mesa .............................
Pasadena ................................
Irvine .......................................
Santa Ana ...............................
Fullerton ..................................
Los Angeles ............................
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Los Angeles ............................
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Orange ....................................
El Monte ..................................
Los Angeles ............................
Brea ........................................
Del Aire ...................................
El Segundo .............................
Los Angeles ............................
Woodland Hills ........................
Los Angeles ............................
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Newport Beach .......................
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Los Angeles ............................
Newport Beach .......................
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Fullerton ..................................
Los Angeles ............................
Los Angeles ............................
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Milwaukee ...............................
Milwaukee ...............................
Wauwatosa .............................
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Milwaukee ...............................
Wauwatosa .............................
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In the United States District Court for
the District of Columbia
rights of use (‘‘IRUs’’) for lateral
connections to certain buildings located
in a number of metropolitan areas as
listed in Appendix A of the proposed
Final Judgment (collectively the
‘‘Divestiture Assets’’). Under the terms
of the Stipulation, Defendants will take
certain steps to ensure that these assets
are preserved and maintained.
The United States and Defendants
have stipulated that the proposed Final
Judgment may be entered after
compliance with the APPA. Entry of the
proposed Final Judgment would
terminate this action, except that the
Court would retain jurisdiction to
construe, modify, or enforce the
provisions of the proposed Final
Judgment and to punish violations
thereof. Defendants have also stipulated
that they will comply with the terms of
the Stipulation and the proposed Final
Judgment from the date of signing of the
Stipulation, pending entry of the
proposed Final Judgment by the Court
and the required divestitures. Should
the Court decline to enter the proposed
Final Judgment, Defendants have also
committe to continue to abide by its
requirements and those of the
Stipulation until the expiration of time
for appeal.
United States of America, Plaintiff
v.SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T
Corp., Defendants
Civil Action No. 1:05CV02102 (EGS)
Filed: November 16, 2005
Competitive Impact Statement
Plaintiff United States of America
(‘‘United States’’), pursuant to Section 2
(b) of the Antitrust Procedures and
Penalties Act (‘‘APPA’’ or ‘‘Tunney
Act’’), 15 U.S.C. 16(b)–(h), files this
Competitive Impact Statement relating
to the proposed Final Judgment
submitted for entry in this civil antitrust
proceeding.
I. Nature and Purpose of the Proceeding
Defendants entered into an Agreement
and Plan of Merger dated January 30,
2005, pursuant to which SBC
Communications Inc. (‘‘SBC’’) will
acquire AT&T Corp. (‘‘AT&T’’). The
United States filed a civil antitrust
Complaint on October 27, 2005 seeking
to enjoin the proposed acquisition. The
Complaint alleges that the likely effect
of this acquisition would be to lessen
competition substantially for Local
Private Lines and other
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines located in 11
metropolitan areas in violation of
Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C.
18. This loss of competition would
result in customers facing higher prices
for Local Private Lines and other
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines than they would
absent the merger.
At the same time the Complaint was
filed, the United States filed a
Stipulation and proposed Final
Judgment that are designed to eliminate
the anticompetitive effects of the
acquisition. Under the proposed Final
Judgment, which is explained more
fully below, Defendants are required to
divest, in most situations, indefeasible
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II. Description of the Events Giving Rise
to the Alleged Violation
A. The Defendants and the Proposed
Transaction
SBC is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, with its headquarters in San
Antonio, Texas. SBC, formerly
Southwestern Bell, is a regional bell
operation company (‘‘RBOC’’), formed
as one of the seven regional holding
companies created as a result of the
breakup of AT&T’s telephone business
into local and long distance components
initially in 1984. Since then, SBC has
acquired two other RBOCs—Pacific
Telsis and Ameritech—as well as an
incumbent local exchange carrier
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(‘‘ILEC’’), Southern New England
Telephone Corporation. SBC owns and
operates local telecommunications
networks throughout is 13-state territory
and provides local and long distance
voice and data services to, inter alia,
business customers and other
telecommunications carriers. SBC’s
wireline telecommunications operations
currently serve around 52 million
switched access lines, including 27.5
million residential and 17.6 million
business lines. In 2004, SBC earned
approximately $36.9 billion in revenues
from its wireline services, including
almost $13 million attributable to
business customers.
AT&T is a corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the State of
New York, with its headquarters in
Bedminsiter, New Jersey. After the 1984
breakup, AT&T was primarily a long
distance provider and is still the
nation’s largest interexchange carrier
(‘‘IXC’’), offering traditional long
distance telephone service, as well as
one of the largest competitive local
exchange carriers (‘‘CLEC’’), offering
local network access for voice and data
services. AT&T serves consumers and
businesses across the United States and
around the globe. It also owns and
operates local networks in dozens of
metropolitan areas in the United States,
a substantial number of which are in
SBC territory. Like SBC, AT&T also
provides local and long distance voice
and data services to business customers
and other telecommunications carriers.
AT&T competes with SBC to serve
wholesale and retail customers’
locations in SBC’s franchised territory.
IN 2004, AT&T earned approximately
$30.5 billion in revenues, including
$22.6 billion from business customers.
Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of
Merger dated January 30, 2005, SBC
agreed to acquire AT&T for
approximately $16 billion. The
proposed transaction, as initially agreed
to by Defendants, would lessen
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competition substantially for Local
Private Lines and other
telecommunication services that rely on
Local Private Lines in 11 metropolitan
areas. This acquisition is the subject of
the Complaint and proposed Final
Judgment filed by the United States.
B. Local Private Lines
A Local Private Line is a dedicated,
point-to-point circuit offered over
copper and/or fiber-optic transmission
facilities that originates and terminates
within a single metropolitan area and
typically includes at least one local
loop. A local loop, sometimes referred
to as a ‘‘last-mile’’ connection, is
typically either a copper or fiber-optic
transmission facility that connects
commercial buildings to a carrier’s
network, making the local loop a
critically important asset for providing
telecommunications services to business
customers.
Local Private Lines are a recognized
service category among
telecommunications carriers and enduser business customers and are sold at
both retail (to business customers) and
wholesale (to other carriers). Depending
on how they are configured, Local
Private Lines can be used to carry voice
traffic, data, or a combination of the
two. Local Private Lines may be
purchased as stand-alone products but
are also an important input to valueadded voice and data
telecommunications services for
business customers and represent a
significant portion of the costs incurred
in providing those services. Customers
typically purchase Local Private Lines
in standard bandwidth increments such
as DS1 (‘‘T1,’’ 1.54 megabits per
second), DS3 (44.74 megabits per
second), OC3 (155.52 megabits per
second), and higher. Local Private Lines
can interconnect with industry-standard
data networking and telephone
equipment, and can be ‘‘channelized’’ to
carry various amounts of voice and/or
data traffic. Local Private Lines are
distinct from switched local exchange
telephone servicers, which route calls
through a voice switch in the local
carrier’s central office and do not
necessarily use a dedicated circuit.
customers do not consider switched
local exchange services to be a
substitute because they do not offer the
guaranteed bandwidth, high service
levels, and security that Local Private
Lines provide.
Competing carriers often rely on Local
Private Line circuits to connect an enduser customer’s location to their
networks, enabling the competitor to
supply value-added data networking,
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distance services to the customer.
although carriers can provide some
types of voice and data services over
switched local exchange lines (e.g.,
when an access line is pre-subscribed to
a long distance carrier), most large
business customers do not find those
services to be a viable or cost-effective
substitute for voice and data
telecommunications services provided
via Local Private Lines or voice and data
telecommunications services provided
via Local Private Lines, insufficient
customers would switch to switched
circuits to render the increase
unprofitable.
For the vast majority of commercial
buildings in its territory, SBC is the only
carrier that owns a last-mile connection
to the building. Thus, in order to
provide Local Private Line circuits or
voice or data telecommunications
services to customers in those SBC-only
buildings, competing carriers typically
must lease the connection from SBC as
Local Private Line service, which SBC
refers to as ‘‘special access.’’ For a small
percentage of commercial buildings
(though these buildings account for a
significant amount of customer demand
and revenue), SBC’s CLEC competitors
have built or acquired their own lastmile fiber-optic connections, separate
from SBC’s, to connect their networks to
the buildings. The CLECs typically refer
to buildings with these connections as
their ‘‘lit buildings’’ or ‘‘on-net
buildings.’’ Once a CLEC has incurred
the high fixed cost to construct a lastmile connection to a building, the CLEC
can usually provide service to business
customers in the building at a lower
marginal cost than it would otherwise
be able to do if it had to lease the
connection from the RBOC. It an also
provide alternative access to other
CLECs seeking to service business
customers in the building.
The relevant geographic market for
both Local Private Lines, as well as
voice and data telecommunications
services that rely on Local Private Lines,
is no broader than each metropolitan
area and no more narrow than each
individual building.
C. The Competitive Effects of the
Transaction on Local Private Lines
SBC’s acquisition of AT&T will
substantially lessen competition in the
markets for (a) Local Private Lines and
(b) voice and data telecommunications
services that rely on Local Private Lines.
SBC is the dominant provider of Local
Private Lines in its franchised territory,
and AT&T is one of its largest
competitors. AT&T is among the leading
CLECs in SBC’s territory in the number
of buildings it has connected with its
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own last-mile fiber facilities. For
hundreds of commercial buildings
located in the metropolitan areas of
Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth,
Texas; Detroit, Michigan; Hartford-New
Haven, Connecticut; Indianapolis,
Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri; Los
Angeles, California; Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; San Diego, California; San
Francisco-San Jose, California; and St.
Louis, Missouri, SBC and AT&T are the
only two firms that own or control a
direct wireline connection to the
building. In these buildings, the merger
of SBC and AT&T would reduce the
number of carriers with an owned or
controlled last-mile connection from
two to one.
The merger would, therefore,
effectively eliminate competition for
facilities-based Local Private Line
service to those buildings, and many
retail and wholesale customers would
no longer have AT&T as a competitive
alternative to SBC. Although other
competitors might resell Local Private
Lines from SBC, those competitors
would not be as effective a competitive
constraint because SBC would control
the price of the resold circuits. The
merged firm would, therefore, have the
ability to raise price to retail and
wholesale customers of Local Private
Lines. In addition, because the cost of
dedicated local access via Local Private
Lines represents an important cost
component of many value-added voice
and data telecommunications services
provided over such access, the merger
would tend to lessen competition for
retail voice and data
telecommunications services provided
over dedicated access by (a) eliminating
AT&T as the only competitive
alternative to SBC for such services with
its own Local Private Line connection to
hundreds of buildings and (b) depriving
other carriers seeking to provide such
value-added network services of the
only fully-facilities based wholesale
competitive alternative to SBC in those
buildings.
Although other CLECs can,
theoretically, build their own fiber
connection to each building in response
to a price increase by the merged firm,
such entry is a difficult, timeconsuming, and expensive process.
Whether a CLEC builds a last-mile
connection to a given building depends
upon many factors, as noted in the
Complaint, and the costs of building a
last-mile fiber-optic connection vary
substantially for each location. Because
a single such connection may cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
build and light, CLECs will typically
only build in to a particular building
after they have secured a customer
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contract of sufficient size and length to
justify the anticipated construction costs
for that building. While entry may occur
in some buildings where AT&T is the
only CLEC present in response to a postmerger price increase, the conditions for
entry are unlikely to be met in the
hundreds of buildings that are the
subject to the Complaint. For these
buildings, the expected customer
demand and proximity of other CLEC
fiber to the building (two important
factors in the decision to build in)
indicate that such entry, even in the face
of a price increase, is unlikely to be
profitable for any CLEC. Thus, entry
would not be timely, likely, or sufficient
to eliminate the competitive harm that
would likely result from SBC’s proposed
acquisition of AT&T.
For these seasons, the United States
concluded that SBC’s proposed
acquisition of AT&T will likely
substantially lessen competition, in
violation of Section 7 of the Clayton
Act, in the provision of Local Private
Lines and other telecommunications
services that rely on Local Private Lines
in the 11 metropolitan areas listed
above.
III. Explanation of the Proposed Final
Judgment
The divestiture requirements of the
proposed Final Judgment will eliminate
the anticompetitive effects of the
acquisition of Local Private Lines and
other telecommunications services that
rely on Local Private Lines in the
relevant areas. The proposed Final
Judgment requires Defendants, within
120 days after the closing of SBC’s
acquisition of AT&T, or five (5) days
after notice of the entry of the Final
Judgment by the Court, whichever is
later, to divest the Divestiture Assets.
The Divestiture Assets consist of IRUs
for lateral connections (or last-mile
connection) to hundreds of buildings in
the identified metropolitan areas along
with transport facilities sufficient to
enable the IRUs to be used by the
purchaser to provide
telecommunications services.
Defendants must take all reasonable
steps necessary to accomplish the
divestitures quickly and shall cooperate
with prospective purchasers.
These assets must be divested in such
a way as to satisfy the United States in
its sole discretion that they will be used
by the purchaser to compete effectively
and remedy the harm alleged in the
Complaint in the markets for Local
Private Lines and other
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines. In reviewing the
purchaser or purchasers of the
Divestiture Assets, the United States
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will be particularly focused on the
purchaser’s ability to be a viable
competitor in offering Local Private
Lines on both a retail and/or wholesale
basis. Purchasers that are already
offering similar services in or near the
metropolitan area are more likely to be
viable competitors than other potential
purchasers.
Divesting the last-mile connections to
the hundreds of buildings in SBC’s
territory will remedy the harm alleged
in the Complaint. Although other
CLEC’s have local fiber networks in
each of the metropolitan areas at issue,
they cover only a small percentage of
buildings, and the buildings covered
vary from CLEC and CLEC. As a result,
there are numerous buildings where
AT&T is the only CLEC with a last-mile
connection. It is the decreased
competition in the provision of these
last-mile connections to buildings
where AT&T is the only CLEC that
creates the harm alleged in the
Complaint. Whether the geographic
market for the sale of Local Private Line
or other telecommunications services
that rely on Local Private Lines is as
broad as the metropolitan area or as
narrow as individual locations or
building, divesting these last-mile
connections will restore the lost
facilities-based competition. The
proposed Final Judgment also
strengthens metropolitan area
competition by divesting to a single
purchaser in each area all of the
buildings that were unique to AT&T.
To ensure that the purchaser has
adequate capacity to serve customers in
a given location, the lateral or last-mile
connection to be divested will consist of
an IRU for the grater of (1) eight (8) fiber
strands or (2) one-half of the currently
unused fiber strands in AT&T’s facilities
serving the building measured at the
time of the filing of the Complaint, from
the point of entry of the building to the
splice point with fiber used to serve
different buildings. This should be
sufficient capacity for the purchaser to
serve current demand and allow for
future growth and changes in the local
service area while allowing SBC to
retain the AT&T circuits being used to
serve current customers without
disruption to their service. In addition,
to accommodate network engineering
and design requirements, the divestiture
IRUs can be granted for fiber strands
owned or controlled by either SBC or
AT&T, as mutually agreed by
Defendants and the purchaser.
Last-mile connections, however, are
of little use if they are not connected to
a network. Therefore, the proposed
Final Judgment also requires the
divestiture of IRUs for transport
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facilities sufficient to connect the
divested last-mile connections to
locations mutually agreed upon by
Defendants and the purchaser. This will
ensure that the purchaser can connect
the last-mile connections to its network
facilities and provide both Local Private
Lines and any other
telecommunications services that rely
on Local Private Lines that a customer
in the building may require.
An IRU (or indefeasible right of use)
is a long-term leasehold interest
commonly used in the
telecommunications industry that gives
the holder the right to use specified
strands of fiber in a telecommunications
facility. The proposed Final Judgment
contemplates that the purchaser and
Defendants will negotiate commercially
reasonable IRUs that must meet
minimum requirements, including: (1)
To ensure that the purchaser has the
asset for a long enough time period to
serve customers while taking into
account the dynamic nature of the
telecommunications industry and the
useful life of the existing fiber, the IRU
must be for a minimum of 10 years; (2)
to minimize ongoing carrying costs for
the IRU, the IRU cannot contain a
monthly or other recurring fee; and (3)
to ensure that Defendants cannot limit
the purchasers’ use of the last-mile
connection, the IRU cannot
unreasonably limit the right of the
purchaser to use the asset as it wishes
(e.g., the purchaser shall be permitted to
splice into the IRU fiber, though such
splice points must be mutually agreed
upon by Defendants and purchaser).
This last requirement, allows the
purchaser to splice into the IRUs to
serve locations other than those listed in
Appendix A of the proposed Final
Judgment, at mutually agreed upon
splice points.
The requirements of the proposed
Final Judgment ensure that the
purchasers can use the Divested Assets
to begin competing immediately for
customers in these buildings and will
have the rights and cost structure
necessary to be effective by (1)
minimizing carrying costs so that
viability is not threatened if customers
are not immediately procured and (2)
giving the purchaser flexibility in use of
the last-mile connections by allowing
splicing into the fiber.
In some locations, AT&T serves the
building using fiber that it controls
through an IRU, rather than full
ownership. In these locations if the
United States determines in its sole
discretion that such an alternative
disposition will meet the aims of the
proposed Final Judgment, Defendants
may alternatively (1) enter into a dark
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fiber service agreement or other
commercial arrangement for the lastmile connections and, if necessary,
associated transport with the purchaser
or (2) relinquish a portion of AT&T’s
IRU rights back to the owner of the fiber.
In either of these circumstances, as with
approving a purchaser, the United
States will consider whether the fiber is
likely to be used it in a manner that will
remedy the competitive harm alleged in
the Complaint.
Lastly, with the approval of the
United States, in its sole discretion, and
at the purchaser’s option, the
Divestiture Assets may be modified to
exclude assets and rights that are not
necessary to meet the aims of this Final
Judgment. This will allow for minor
modifications of the Divestiture Assets
to exclude assets that may not be
necessary in order to remedy the
competitive harm.
A. Timing of Divestitures
To rapidly restore lost competition,
the United States requires divestitures
to be completed within the shortest time
period reasonable under the
circumstances. In this case, the
proposed Final Judgment requires, in
Section IV.A, divestiture of the
Divestiture Assets, within 120 days after
the closing of SBC’s acquisition of
AT&T, or five (5) days after notice of the
entry of the Final Judgment by the
Court, whichever is later. The United
States in its sole discretion may extend
the date for divestiture of the Divestiture
Assets by up to sixty (60) days. The
divestiture timing provisions of the
proposed Final Judgment will ensure
that the divestitures are carried out in a
timely manner, and at the same time
will permit Defendants an adequate
opportunity to accomplish the
divestitures through a fair and orderly
process.
B. Use of a Divestiture Trustee
In the event that Defendants do not
accomplish the divestiture within the
periods prescribed in the proposed
Final Judgment, the Final Judgment
provides that the Court will appoint a
trustee selected by the United States to
effect the divestitures. To ensure that
the divestiture trustee can promptly
locate and divest to an acceptable
purchaser, the United States, in its sole
discretion, may require Defendants to
include additional assets, or allow
Defendants to substitute substantially
similar assets, which substantially relate
the Divestiture Assets to be divested by
the divestiture trustee.
The proposed Final Judgment
provides that Defendants will pay all
costs and expenses of the divestiture
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trustee. The divestiture trustee’s
commission will be structured, under
Section V.D of the proposed Final
Judgment, so as to provide an incentive
for the divestiture trustee based on the
price obtained and the speed with
which the divestitures are
accomplished. After his or her
appointment becomes effective, the
divestiture trustee will file monthly
reports with the Court and the United
States setting forth his or her efforts to
accomplish the divestitures. Section V.G
of the proposed Final Judgment requires
the divestiture trustee to divest the
Divestiture Assets to an acceptable
purchaser or purchasers no later than
six (6) months after his or her
appointment. At the end of six (6)
months, if all divestitures have not been
accomplished, the trustee and the
United States will make
recommendations to the Court, which
shall enter such orders as appropriate in
order to carry out the purpose of the
trust, including extending the trust or
term of the trustee’s appointment.
IV. Remedies Available to Potential
Private Litigants
Section 4 of the Clayton Act, 15
U.S.C. 15, provides that any person who
has been injured as a result of conduct
prohibited by the antitrust laws may
bring suit in federal court to recover
three times the damages the person has
suffered, as well as costs and reasonable
attorneys’ fees. Entry of the proposed
Final Judgment will neither impair nor
assist the bringing of any private
antitrust damage action. Under the
provisions of Section 5(a) of the Clayton
Act, 15 U.S.C. 16(a), the proposed Final
Judgment has no prima facie effect in
any subsequent private lawsuit that may
be brought against Defendants.
V. Procedures Available for
Modification of the Proposed Final
Judgment
The United States and Defendants
have stipulated that the proposed Final
Judgment may be entered by the Court
after compliance with the provisions of
the APPA, provided that the Untied
States has not withdrawn its consent.
The APA conditions entry upon the
Court’s determination that the proposed
Final Judgment is in the public interest.
The APPA provides a period of at
least sixty (60) days preceding the
effective date of the proposed Final
Judgment within which any person may
submit to the United States written
comments regarding the proposed Final
Judgment. Any person who wishes to
comment should do so within sixty (60)
days of the date of publication of this
Competitive Impact Statement in the
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Federal Register. All comments
received during this period will be
considered by the Department of Justice,
which remains free to withdraw its
consent to the proposed Final Judgment
at any time prior to the Court’s entry of
judgment. The comments and the
response of the United States will be
filed with the Court and published in
the Federal Register.
Written comments should be
submitted to: Nancy M. Goodman,
Chief, Telecommunications and Media
Enforcement Section, Antitrust
Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
1401 H Street, NW., Suite 8000,
Washington, DC 20530. The proposed
Final Judgment provides that the Court
retains jurisdiction over this action, and
the parties may apply to the Court for
any order necessary or appropriate for
the modification, interpretation, or
enforcement of the Final Judgment.
VI. Alternatives to the Proposed Final
Judgment
The United States considered, as an
alternative to the proposed Final
Judgment, a full trial on the merits
against Defendants. The United States
could have continued the litigation and
sought preliminary and permanent
injunctions against SBC’s acquisition of
AT&T. The United States is satisfied,
however, that the divestiture of assets
and other relief described in the
proposed Final Judgment will preserve
competition for Local Private Lines and
other telecommunications services that
rely on Local Private Lines in the
metropolitan areas identified in the
Complaint.
VII. Standard of Review Under the
APPA for the Proposed Final Judgment
The APPA requires that proposed
consent judgments in antitrust cases
brought by the United States be subject
to a sixty (60) day comment period, after
which the Court shall determine
whether entry of the proposed Final
Judgment ‘‘is in the public interest.’’ 15
U.S.C. § 16(e)(1). In making that
determination, the Court shall consider:
(A) The competitive impact of such
judgment, including termination of alleged
violations, provisions for enforcement and
modification, duration or relief sought,
anticipated effects of alternative remedies
actually considered, whether its terms are
ambiguous, and any other competitive
considerations bearing upon the adequacy of
such judgment that the court deems
necessary to a determination of whether the
consent judgment is in the public interest;
and
(B) The impact of entry of such judgment
upon competition in the relevant market or
markets, upon the public generally and
individuals alleging specific injury from the
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violations set forth in the complaint
including consideration of the public benefit,
if any, to be derived from a determination of
the issues at trail.
(citing United States v. Bechtel Corp.,
648 F.2d 660, 666 (9th Cir. 1981)); see
also Microsoft, 56 F.3d at 1460–62.
Courts have held that:
15 U.S.C. § 16(e)(1)(A) & (B). As the
United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit has held,
the APPA permits a court to consider,
among other things, the relationship
between the remedy secured and the
specific allegations set forth in the
government’s complaint, whether the
consent judgment is sufficiently clear,
whether enforcement mechanisms are
sufficient, and whether the consent
judgment may positively harm third
parties. See United States v. Microsoft
Corp., 56 F.3d 1448, 1458–62 (D.C. Cir.
1995).
‘‘Nothing in this section shall be
construed to require the court to
conduct an evidentiary hearing or to
require the court to permit anyone to
intervene.’’ 15 U.S.C. § 16(e)(2). Thus, in
conducting this inquiry, ‘‘[t]he court is
nowhere compelled to go to trial or to
engage in extended proceedings which
might have the effect of vitiating the
benefits of prompt and less costly
settlement through the consent decree
process.’’ 119 Cong. Rec. 24,598 (1973)
(statement of Senator Tunney).1
Rather:
[t]he balancing of competing social and
political interests affected by a proposed
antitrust consent decree must be left, in the
first instance, to the discretion of the
Attorney General. The court’s role in
protecting the public interest is one of
insuring that the government has not
breached its duty to the public in consenting
to the decree. The court is required to
determine not whether a particular decree is
the one that will best serve society, but
whether the settlement is ‘‘within the reaches
of the public interest.’’ More elaborate
requirements might undermine the
effectiveness of antitrust enforcement by
consent decree.
[a]bsent a showing of corrupt failure of the
government to discharge its duty, the Court,
in making its public interest finding, should
* * * carefully consider the explanations of
the government in the competitive impact
statement and its responses to comments in
order to determine whether those
explanations are reasonable under the
circumstances.
United States v. Mid-America
Dairymen, Inc., 1977–1 Trade Cass.
(CCH) ¶ 61,508, at 71,980 (W.D. Mo.
1977).
Accordingly, with respect to the
adequacy of the relief secured by the
proposed Final Judgment, a court may
not ‘‘engage in an unrestricted
evaluation of what relief would best
serve the public.’’ United States v. BNS
Inc., 858 F.2d 456, 462 (9th Cir. 1988)
1 See United States v. Gillette Co., 406 F. Supp.
713, 716 (D. Mass. 1975) (recognizing it was not the
court’s duty to settle; rather, the court must only
answer ‘‘whether the settlement achieved [was]
within the reaches of the public interest’’). A
‘‘public interest’’ determination can be made
properly on the basis of the Competitive Impact
Statement and Response to Comments filed by the
Department of Justice pursuant to the APPA.
Although the APPA authorizes the use of additional
procedures, 15 U.S.C. 16(f), those procedures are
discretionary. A court need not invoke any of them
unless it believes that the comments have raised
significant issues and that further proceedings
would aid the court in resolving those issues. See
H.R. Rep. No. 93–1463, 93d Cong., 2d Sess. 8–9
(1974), reprinted in 1974 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6535, 6538–
39.
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Bechtel, 648 F.2d at 666 (emphasis
added) (citations omitted).2
The proposed Final Judgment,
therefore, should not be reviewed under
a standard of whether it is certain to
eliminate every anticompetitive effect of
a particular practice or whether it
mandates certainty of free competition
in the future. Court approval of a final
judgment requires a standard more
flexible and less strict than the standard
required for a finding of liability. ‘‘[A]
proposed decree must be approved even
if it falls short of the remedy the court
would impose on its own, as long as it
falls within the range of acceptability or
is ‘within the reaches of public
interest.’ ’’ United States v. AT&T Corp.,
552 F. Supp. 131, 151 (D.D.C. 1982)
(citations omitted) (quoting Gillette, 406
F. Supp. at 716), aff’d sub nom.
Maryland v. United States, 460 U.S.
1001 (1983); see also United States v.
Alcan Aluminum Ltd., 605 F. Supp 619,
622 (W.D. Ky. 1985) (approving the
consent judgment even though the court
would have imposed a greater remedy).
Moreover, the Court’s role under the
APPA is limited to reviewing the
remedy in relationship to the violations
that the United States has alleged in its
Complaint, and does not authorize the
Court to ‘‘construct [its] own
hypothetical case and then evaluate the
decree against that case.’’ Microsoft, 56
F.3d at 1459. Because the ‘‘court’s
authority to review the decree depends
entirely on the government’s exercising
its prosecutorial discretion by bringing
a case in the first place,’’ it follows that
2 Cf. BNS, 858 F.2d at 464 (holding that the
court’s ‘‘ultimate authority under the [APPA] is
limited to approving or disapproving the consent
decree’’); Gillette, 406 F. Supp. at 716 (noting that,
in this way, the court is constrained to ‘‘look at the
overall picture not hypercritically, nor with a
microscope, but with an artist’s reducing glass’’);
see generally Microsoft, 56 F.3d at 1461 (discussing
whether ‘‘the remedies [obtained in the decree are]
so inconsonant with the allegations charged as to
fall outside of the ‘reaches of the public interest’ ’’).
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‘‘the court is only authorized to review
the decree itself,’’ and not to ‘‘effectively
redraft the complaint’’ to inquire into
other matters that the United States did
not pursue. Id. at 1459–60.
VIII. Determinative Documents
There are no determinative materials
or documents within the meaning of the
APPA that were considered by the
United States in formulating the
proposed Final Judgment.
Dated: November 16, 2005.
Respectfully submitted,
/s/ lllllllllllllllllll
Laury E. Bobbish,
Assistant Chief.
/s/ lllllllllllllllllll
Lawrence M. Frankel
(D.C. Bar No. 441532)
Claude F. Scott, Jr.
(D.C. Bar No. 414906)
Mary N. Strimel
(D.C. Bar No. 455303)
Matthew C. Hammond
Lauren J. Fishbein
(D.C. Bar No. 451889)
Conrad J. Smucker
(D.C. Bar No. 434590)
Jeremiah M. Luongo
Jared A. Hughes
David T. Blonder
William Lindsey Wilson
William B. Michael
Trial Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice,
Antitrust Division, Telecommunications and
Media Enforcement Section, 1401 H Street,
NW., Suite 8000, Washington, DC 20530.
Telephone: (202) 514–5621. Facsimile: (202)
514–6381.
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
United States v. Verizon
Communications Inc. and MCI, Inc.;
Competitive Impact Statement,
Proposed Final Judgment, Complaint,
Stipulation
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the
Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act,
15 U.S.C. 16(b)–(h), that a Complaint,
proposed Final Judgment, Stipulation,
and Competitive Impact Statement have
been filed with the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia in United
States v. Verizon Communications Inc.,
Civil Case No. 1:05CV02103 (HHK). On
October 27, 2005, the United States filed
a complaint alleging that the proposed
acquisition of MCI, Inc. (‘‘MCI’’) by
Verizon Communications Inc.
(‘‘Verizon’’) would violate Section 7 of
the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 18, by
substantially lessening competition in
the provision of locally private lines
(also called ‘‘special access’’) and other
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
United States v. SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp.;
Competitive Impact Statement, Proposed Final Judgment, Complaint,
Amended Stipulation
Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Antitrust Procedures and
Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. 16(b)-(h), that a Complaint, proposed Final
Judgment, Amended Stipulation, and Competitive Impact Statement have
been filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in
United States v. SBC Communications Inc., Civil Case No. 1:05CV02102
(EGS). On October 27, 2005, the United States filed a complaint
alleging that the proposed acquisition of AT&T Corp. (``AT&T'') by SBC
Communications Inc. (``SBC'') would violate Section 7 of the Clayton
Act, 15 U.S.C. 18, by substantially lessening competition in the
provision of local private lines (also called ``special access'') and
other telecommunications services that rely on local private lines in
eleven metropolitan areas: Chicago; Dallas-Fort Worth; Detroit;
Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut; Indianapolis; Kansas City; Los
Angeles; Milawaukee; San Diego; San Francisco-San Jose; and St. Louis.
The proposal Final Judgment requires the defendants to divest assets in
those eleven metropolitan areas in order to proceed with SBC's $16
billion acquisition of AT&T. A Competitive Impact Statement filed by
the United States on November 16, 2005 describes the Complaint, the
proposed Final Judgment, the industry, and the remedies available to
private litigants who may have been injured by the alleged violation.
Copies of the Complaint, proposed Final Judgment, Amended
Stipulation, Competitive Impact Statement, and all further papers filed
with the Court in connection with this Complaint will be available for
inspection at the Antitrust Documents Group, Antitrust Division,
Liberty Place Building, Room 215, 325 7th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503 (202-514-2481), and at the Office of the Clerk of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia. Copies of these materials
may be obtained from the Antitrust Division upon request and payment of
the copying fee set by Department of Justice regulations.
Interested persons may submit comments in writing regarding the
proposed consent decree to the United States. Such comments must be
received by the Antitrust Division within sixty (60) days and will be
filed with the Court by the United States. Comments should be addressed
to Nancy Goodman, Chief, Telecommunications & Media Enforcement
Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1401 H Street,
NW., Suite 8000, Washington, DC 20530 (202-514-5621). At the conclusion
of the sixty (60) day comment period, the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia may enter the proposed consent decree upon finding
that it serves the public interest.
J. Robert Kramer II,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
In the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States of America, United States Department of Justice,
Antitrust Division, 1401 H Street, NW., Suite 8000, Washington, DC
20530, Plaintiff; v. SBC Communications, Inc., 175 East Houston, San
Antonio, TX 78205; and AT&T Corp., One AT&T Way, Bedminster, NJ 07921,
Defendants
Case Number 1:05CV02102
Judge: Emmet G. Sullivan
Deck Type: Antitrust
Date Stamp: 10/27/2005
Complaint
The United States of America, acting under the direction of the
Attorney General of the United States, brings this civil action to
enjoin the merger of two of the largest providers of telecommunications
services in the United States, SBC Communications, Inc. (``SBC'') and
AT&T Corp. (``AT&T''), and alleges as follows:
1. On January 30, 2005, SBC entered into an agreement to acquire
AT&T. If approved, the transaction would create the nation's largest
provider of telecommunications services. Plaintiff seeks to enjoin this
transaction because it will substantially lessen competition for (a)
Local Private Lines that connect hundreds of commercial buildings in
SBC's franchised territory to a carrier's network or other local
destination, and (b) other telecommunications services that rely on
Local Private Lines.
2. SBC and AT&T compete in the sale of wireline telecommunications
services to retail and wholesale customers in the United States.
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3. For hundreds of commercial buildings in the metropolitan areas
of Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Detroit, Michigan;
Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut; Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City,
Missouri; Los Angeles, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; San Diego,
California; San Francisco-San Jose, California; and St. Louis,
Missouri, SBC and AT&T are the only two firms that own or control a
direct wireline connection to the building. These building connections
are used to supply voice and data telecommunications services to
business customers. As described in this Complaint, the proposed merger
is likely to substantially reduce competition for Local Private Lines
and telecommunications services that rely on Local Private Lines to
those buildings.
I. Jurisdiction and Venue
4. This action is filed by the United States under Section 15 of
the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 25, to prevent and restrain the Defendants
from violating Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18.
5. SBC and AT&T are engaged in interstate commerce and in
activities substantially affecting interstate commerce. The Court has
jurisdiction over this action pursuant to Sections 15 and 16 of the
Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 25, 26, and 28 U.S.C. 1331, 1337.
6. SBC and AT&T transact business and are found in the District of
Columbia. Venue is proper under Section 12 of the Clayton Act, 15
U.S.C. 22, and 28 U.S.C. 1391(c).
II. The Defendants and the Transaction
7. SBC is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of Delaware, with its headquarters in San Antonio, Texas.
SBC, formerly Southwestern Bell, is a regional bell operating company
(``RBOC''), formed as part of the seven regional holding companies to
result from the breakup of AT&T's local telephone business in 1984. In
1996, SBC acquired another of the seven original holding companies,
Pacific Telesis, and in 1999 it acquired a third RBOC, Ameritech. SBC
acquired another incumbent local exchange carrier (``ILEC''), Southern
New England Telephone Corporation, in 1998. SBC's wireline
telecommunications operations currently serve around 52 million
switched access lines, including 27.5 million residential and 17.6
million business lines in 13 states. In 2004, SBC earned approximately
$36.9 billion in revenues from its wireline services, including almost
$13 billion attributable to business customers. SBC has fiber optic or
copper connections to virtually all of the commercial buildings in its
franchised territory.
8. AT&T is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the State of New York, with its headquarters in Bedminster, New Jersey.
AT&T is the nation's largest interexchange carrier (``IXC''), offering
traditional long distance telephone service, as well as one of the
largest competitive local exchange carriers (``CLEC''), offering local
network exchange and access for voice and data services. AT&T serves
consumers and businesses across the United States and around the globe,
and owns significant local network assets within SBC's 13-state
operating territory including direct fiber optic connections to
numerous commercial buildings. In 2004, AT&T earned approximately $30.5
billion in revenues, including $22.6 billion from business customers.
9. Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 30,
2005, SBC agreed to acquire AT&T for approximately $16 billion.
III. Trade and Commerce
A. Nature of Trade and Commerce
10. SBC owns and operates local telecommunications networks
throughout its territory and provides local and long distance voice and
data services to, inter alia, business customers and other
telecommunications carriers.
11. AT&T owns and operates local networks in dozens of metropolitan
areas in the United States, a substantial number of which are in SBC
territory. Like SBC, AT&T also provides local and long distance voice
and data services to business customers and other telecommunications
carriers. Significant numbers of AT&T's customers have locations in
SBC's franchised territory, and the two firms compete to serve those
wholesale and retail customers.
12. One element of the parties' local networks are local loops,
sometimes referred to as ``last-mile'' connections, which are typically
either copper or fiber-optic transmission facilities that connect
commercial buildings to a carrier's network. These last-mile
connections are a critically important asset for providing service to
business customers.
13. A Local Private Line is a dedicated, point-to-point circuit
offered over copper and/or fiber-optic transmission facilities that
originates and terminates within a single metropolitan area and
typically includes at least one local loop. Local Private Lines are
sold at both retail (to business customers) and wholesale (to other
carriers). SBC refers to local Private Line circuits as ``special
access.''
14. Depending on how they are configured, Local Private Lines can
be used to carry voice traffic, data, or a combination of the two.
Local Private Lines may be purchased as stand-alone products but are
also an important input to value-added voice and data
telecommunications services that are offered to business customers.
15. For the vast majority of commercial buildings in its territory,
SBC is the only carrier that owns a last-mile connection to the
building. Thus, in order to provide voice or data telecommunications
services to customers in those SBC-only buildings, competing carriers
typically must lease the connection from SBC as Local Private Line
service (special access).
16. For a small percentage of commercial buildings (though one that
accounts for a substantial percentage of customer demand and revenue),
SBC's CLEC competitors have built or acquired their own last-mile
fiber-optic connections, separate from SBC's, to connect their networks
to the buildings. The CLECs typically refer to buildings with these
connections as their ``lit buildings'' or ``on-net buildings.'' Once a
CLEC has incurred the high fixed cost to construct a last-mile
connection to a building, the CLEC can usually provide service to
business customers in the building at a lower marginal cost than it
would otherwise be able to do if it had to lease the connection from
the RBOC. It can also provide alternative access to other CLECs seeking
to serve business customers in the building.
17. AT&T is among leading CLECs in SBC's territory in the number of
buildings it has connected with its own last-mile fiber facilities. For
hundreds of buildings in SBC's territory, the only two carriers that
own or control the direct building connection are AT&T and SBC.
18. In the hundreds of buildings where AT&T is the only CLEC with a
last-mile connection, the merger of SBC and AT&T would reduce the
number of carriers with an owned or controlled last-mile connection
from two to one.
B. Relevant Product Markets
19. The relevant product markers affected by this transaction are
the markets for: (a) Local Private Lines, and (b) voice and data
telecommunications services that rely on Local Private Lines.
20. SBC is the dominant provider of Local Private Lines (special
access) in its franchised territory with approximately $4.4 billion in
special access sales in 2004. AT&T is one of SBC's largest competitors
with $311
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million in Local Private Line sales in 2004, of which over $90 million
were in SBC territory.
21. Local Private Lines are a recognized service category among
telecommunications carriers and end-user business customers. Customers
typically purchase Local Private Lines in standard bandwidth increments
such as DS1 (``T1,'' 1.54 megabits per second), DS3 (44.74 megabits per
second), OC3 (155.52 megabits per second), and higher. Local Private
Lines can interconnect with industry-standard data networking and
telephone equipment, and can be ``channelized'' to carry various
amounts of voice and/or data traffic.
22. Local Private Lines are distinct from switched local exchange
telephone services. Switched local exchange lines route calls through a
voice switch in the local carrier's central office and do not
necessarily use a dedicated circuit. These switched circuits do not
offer the guaranteed bandwidth, high service levels, and security that
Local Private Lines provide.
23. Competing carriers often rely on Local Private Line (special
access) circuits to connect an end-user customer's location to their
networks, enabling the competitor to supply value-added data
networking, Internet access, local voice and long distance services to
the customer. Although carriers can provide some types of voice and
data services over switched local exchange lines (e.g., when an access
line is pre-subscribed to a long distance carrier), most large business
customers do not find those services to be a viable or cost-effective
substitute for voice and data telecommunications services provided via
Local Private Lines. In the event of a small, but significant,
nontransitory increase in price for either Local Private Lines or voice
and data telecommunications services provided via Local Private Lines,
insufficient customers would switch to switched circuits to render the
increase unprofitable.
C. Relevant Geographic Markets
24. The relevant geographic markets for both Local Private Lines,
as well as voice and data telecommunications services that rely on
Local Private Lines, are no broader than each metropolitan area and no
more narrow than each individual building.
IV. Anticompetitive Effects
25. SBC and AT&T are the only two carriers that own or control a
Local Private Line connection to many buildings in each region. The
merger would, therefore, effectively eliminate competition for
facilities-based Local Private Line service to those buildings, and
many retail and wholesale customers would be longer have AT&T as a
competitive alternative to SBC. Although other competitors might resell
Local Private Lines from SBC, those competitors would not be as
effective a competitive constraint because SBC would control the price
of the resold circuits. The merged firm would, therefore, have the
ability to raise price to retail and wholesale customers of Local
Private Lines.
26. In addition, because the cost of dedicated local access via
Local Private Line represents an important cost component of many
value-added voice and data telecommunications services provided over
such access, by (a) eliminating AT&T as the only competitive
alternative to SBC for such services with its own Local Private Line
connection to hundreds of buildings, and (b) depriving other carriers
seeking to provide such value-added services of the only fully-
facilities based wholesale competitive alternative to SBC in those
buildings, the merger would tend to lessen competition for retail voice
and data telecommunications services provided over dedicated access.
V. Entry
27. Although other CLECs can, theoretically, build their own fiber
connection to each building in response to a price increase by the
merged firm, such entry is a difficult, time-consuming, and expensive
process. Whether a CLEC builds a last mile connection to a given
building depends upon many factors, including:
a. The proximity of the building to the CLEC's existing network
interconnection points;
b. The capacity required at the customer's location (and thus the
revenue opportunity);
c. The availability of capital;
d. The existence of physical barriers, such as rivers and railbeds,
between the CLEC's network and the customer's location; and
e. The ease or difficulty of securing the necessary consent from
building owners and municipal officials.
28. The costs of building a last-mile connection vary substantially
for each location. Even if all the above criteria favor the
construction of a last-mile connection in a particular case, a single
such connection typically costs tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands
of dollars to build and activate. Thus, CLECs will typically only build
in to a particular building after they have secured a customer contract
of sufficient size to justify the anticipated construction costs for
that building.
29. Although entry may occur in response to a post-merger price
increase in some of buildings where AT&T is the only connected CLEC,
the conditions for entry are unlikely to be met in hundreds of those
buildings. Thus, entry is unlikely to eliminate the competitive harm
that would likely result from the proposed merger.
VI. Violation Alleged
30. The United States hereby incorporates paragraphs 1 through 29.
31. Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 30,
2005, SBC and AT&T intend to merge their businesses.
32. The effect of the proposed acquisition of AT&T by SBC would be
to lessen competition substantially in interstate trade and commerce in
numerous geographic markets for (a) Local Private Lines and (b) voice
and data telecommunications services that rely on Local Private Lines,
in violation of Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 18.
33. The transaction would likely have the following effects, among
others:
a. competition in the provision and sale of Local Private Lines in
numerous geographic markets would be eliminated or substantially
lessened;
b. competition in the provision and sale of voice and data
telecommunications services that rely on Local Private Lines in
numerous geographic markets would be substantially lessened; and
c. prices for Local Private Lines, as well as voice and data
telecommunications services provided via Local Private Lines, would
likely increase to levels above those that would prevail absent the
merger.
VII. Prayer for Relief
The United States requests:
34. That SBC's proposed acquisition of AT&T be adjudged to violate
Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18;
35. That Defendants be permanently enjoined and restrained from
carrying out the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated January 30, 2005 or
from entering into or carrying out any agreement, understanding, or
plan by which SBC would merge with or acquire AT&T, its capital stock
or any of its assets;
36. That the United States be awarded costs of this action; and
37. That the United States have such other relief as the Court may
deem just and proper.
Dated: October 27, 2005.
Respectfully submitted,
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For Plaintiff United States:
Thomas O. Barnett,
Acting Assistant Attorney General.
J. Bruce McDonald,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General.
J. Robert Krammer II,
Director of Operations.
Nancy M. Goodman,
Chief, Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section (D.C. Bar No
251694).
Laury E. Bobbish,
Assistant Chief, Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section.
Lawrence M. Frankel, (D.C. Bar No. 441532).
Claude F. Scott, Jr. (D.C. Bar No. 414906).
Mary N. Strimel (D.C. Bar No. 455303).
Matthew C. Hammond
Lauren J. Fishbein (D.C. Bar No. 451889).
Conrad J. Smucker (D.C. Bar No. 434590).
Jeremiah M. Luongo
Jared A. Hughes
David T. Blonder
William Lindsey Wilson
William B. Michael
Trial Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division,
Telecommunications and Media Enforcement Section, 1401 H Street,
NW., Suite 8000, Washington, DC 20530. Telephone (202) 514-5621.
Facsimile: (202) 514-6381.
In the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States of America, Plaintiff; v. SBC Communications, Inc. and
AT&T Corp., Defendants
Civil Action No. 1:05CV02102 (EGS)
Final Judgment
Whereas, plaintiff, United States of America, filed its Complaint
on October 27, 2005, plaintiff and defendants, SBC Communications Inc.
(``SBC'') and AT&T Corp. (``AT&T''), by their respective attorneys,
have consented to the entry of this Final Judgment without trial or
adjudication of any issue of fact or law, and without this Final
Judgment constituting any evidence against or admission by an party
regarding any issue of fact or law;
And Whereas, defendants agree to be bound by the provisions of this
Final Judgment pending its approval by the Court;
And Whereas, the essence of this Final Judgment is the prompt and
certain divestiture of certain rights or assets by the defendants to
assure that competition is not substantially lessened;
And Whereas, plaintiff requires defendants to make certain
divestitures for the purpose of remedying the loss of competition
alleged in the Complaint;
And Whereas, defendants have represented to the United States that
the divestitures required below can and will be made and that
defendants will later raise no claim of hardship or difficulty as
grounds for asking the Court to modify any of the divestiture
provisions contained below;
Now Therefore, before any testimony is taken, without trial or
adjudication of any issue of fact or law, and upon consent of the
parties, it its ordered, adjudged, and decreed:
I. Jurisdiction
This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of and each of
the parties to this action. The Complaint states a claim upon which
relief may be granted against defendants under Section 7 of the Clayton
Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. 18).
II. Definitions
As used in this Final Judgment:
A. ``SBC'' means defendant SBC Communications Inc., a Delaware
corporation with its headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, its successors
and assigns, and its subsidiaries, divisions, groups, affiliates,
partnerships and joint ventures, and their directors, officers,
managers, agents, and employees.
B. ``At&T'' means defendant AT&T Corp., a New York corporation with
its headquarters in Bedminster, New Jersey, its successors and assigns,
and its subsidiaries, divisions, groups, affiliates, partnerships and
joint ventures, and their directors, officers, managers, agents, and
employees.
C. ``Acquirer'' or ``Acquirers'' means the entity or entities to
whom defendants divest the Divestiture Assets.
D. ``Divestiture Assets'' means IRUs for Lateral Connections to the
locations listed in Appendix A and sufficient transport as described
below and all additional rights necessary to enable those assets to be
used by the Acquirer to provide telecommunications services. The
Divestiture Assets shall include IRUs for transport facilities
sufficient to connect the Lateral Connections to locations mutually
agreed upon by defendants and the Acquirer, subject to the approval of
the United States in its sole judgment. The term ``Divestiture Assets''
shall be construed broadly to accomplish the complete divestiture of
assets and the purposes of this Final Judgment and is subject to the
following:
(1) With the approval of the United States, in its sole discretion,
in locations listed in Appendix A for which AT&T's interest in the
fiber serving the location is an IRU rather than full ownership and if
the United States determines that such an alternative disposition will
meet the aims of this Final Judgment, defendants may (1) Enter into a
dark fiber service agreement or other commercial arrangement for the
Lateral Connections and associated transport with the Acquirer or (2)
relinquish its IRU rights in the greater of (i) eight (8) fiber strands
or (ii) one-half of the currently unused fiber strands in AT&T's
facilities serving the locations, measured at the time of the filing of
the Complaint, back to the owner of the fiber; and
(2) With the approval of the United States, in its sole discretion,
and at the Acquirer's option, the Divestiture Assets may be modified to
exclude assets and rights that are not necessary to meet the aims of
this Final Judgment.
E. ``IRU'' means indefeasible right of use, a long-term leasehold
interest that gives the holder the right to use specified strands of
fiber in a telecommunications facility. An IRU granted by defendants
under this Final Judgment shall (1) Be for a minimum of 10 years; (2)
not require the Acquirer to pay monthly or other recurring fee to
preserve or make use of its rights; (3) include all additional rights
and interests necessary to enable the IRU to be used by the Acquirer to
provide telecommunications services; and (4) contain other commercially
reasonable and customary terms, including terms for payment to the
grantor for ancillary services, such as maintenance fees on a per
occurrence basis; and (5) not unreasonably limit the right of the
Acquirer to use the asset as it wishes (e.g., the Acquirer shall be
permitted to splice into the IRU fiber, though such splice points must
be mutually agreed upon by Defendants and Acquirer).
F. ``Lateral Connection'' means fiber strands from the point of
entry of the building to the splice point with fiber used to serve
different buildings and shall consist of the greater of (1) eight (8)
fiber strands or (2) one-half of the currently unused fiber strands in
AT&T's facilities serving the building measured at the time of the
filing of the complaint. The fiber strands may be provided from those
owned or controlled by either SBC or AT&T, as mutually agreed by
defendants and Acquirer.
III. Applicability
A. This Final Judgment applies to SBC and AT&T, as defined above,
and all other persons in active concert or participation with any of
them who receive actual notice of this Final Judgment by personal
service or otherwise.
B. Defendants shall require, as a condition of the sale or other
disposition of all or substantially all of their assets or of lesser
business units that include the Divestiture Assets, that the purchasers
agree to be bound by the
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provisions of this Final Judgment, provided, however, that defendants
need to obtain such an agreement from the Acquirers.
IV. Divestitures
A. Defendants are ordered and directed, within 120 calendar days
after the closing of SBC's acquisition of AT&T, or five (5) days after
notice of the entry of this Final Judgment by the Court, whichever is
later, to divest the Divestiture Assets in a manner consistent with
this Final Judgment to an acquirer and on terms acceptable to the
United States in its sole discretion. The United States , in its sole
discretion, may agree to one or more extensions of this time period not
to exceed sixty (60) days in total, and shall notify the Court in such
circumstances. If approval or consent from any government unit is
necessary with respect to divestiture of the Divestiture Assets by
defendants or the Divestiture Trustee and if applications or requests
for approval or consent have been filed with the appropriate
governmental unit within 120 calendar days after the closing of SBC's
acquisition of AT&T, but an order or other dispositive action on such
applications has not been issued before the end of the period permitted
for divestiture, the period shall be extended with respect to
divestiture of those Divestiture Assets for which governmental approval
or consent has not been issued until five (5) days after such approval
or consent is received. Defendants agree to use their best efforts to
divest the Divestiture Assets and to seek all necessary regulatory or
other approvals or consents necessary for such divestitures as
expeditiously as possible. This Final Judgment does not limit the
Federal Communications Commission's exercise of its regulatory powers
and process with respect to the Divestiture Assets. Authorization by
the Federal Communications Commission to conduct the divestiture of a
Divestiture Asset in a particular manner will not modify any of the
requirements of this decree.
B. In accomplishing the divestitures ordered by this Final
Judgment, defendants promptly shall make known, by usual and customary
means, the availability of the Divestiture Assets. Defendants shall
inform any person making inquiry regarding a possible purchase of the
Divestiture Assets that they are being divested pursuant to this Final
Judgment and provide that person with a copy of this Final Judgment.
Defendants shall offer to furnish to all prospective Acquirers, subject
to customary confidentiality assurances, all information and documents
relating to the Divestiture Assets customarily provided in a due
diligence process except such information or documents subject to the
attorney-client or work-product privileges. Defendants shall make
available such information to the United States at the same time that
such information is made available to any other person.
C. Defendants shall permit prospective Acquirers of the Divestiture
Assets to have reasonable access to personnel and to make inspections
of the physical facilities of the Divestiture Assets; access to any and
all environmental, zoning, and other permit documents and information;
and access to any and all financial, operational, or other documents
and information customarily provided as part of a due diligence
process.
D. Defendants shall warrant to all Acquirers of the Divestiture
Assets that each asset will be operation on the date of sale.
E. Defendants shall not take any action that will impede in any way
the permitting, operation, or divestiture of the Divestiture Assets.
F. At the option of the Acquirers, defendants shall enter into a
contract for a period of up to one (1) year for transition services
customarily necessary to maintain, operate, provision, monitor, or
otherwise support the Divestiture Assets. The terms and conditions of
any contractual arrangement meant to satisfy this provision must be
reasonably related to market conditions.
G. Defendants shall warrant to the Acquirer of the Divestiture
Assets that there are no material defects in the environmental, zoning,
or other permits pertaining to the operation of each asset, and that
following the sale of the Divestiture Assets, defendants will not
undertake, directly or indirectly, any challenges to the environmental,
zoning, or other permits relating to the operation of the Divestiture
Assets.
H. Unless the United States otherwise consents in writing, the
divestitures pursuant to Section IV, or by trustee appointed pursuant
to Section V, of this Final Judgment, shall include the entire
Divestiture Assets, and shall be accomplished in such a way as to
satisfy the United States, in its sole discretion, that the Divestiture
Assets can and will be used by the Acquirer as part of a viable,
ongoing telecommunications business. Divestiture of the Divestiture
Assets may be made to more than one Acquirer, provided that (i) all
Divestiture Assets in a given metropolitan area are divested to a
single Acquirer unless otherwise approved by the United States, in its
sole discretion, and (ii) in each instance it is demonstrated to the
sole satisfaction of the United States that the Divestiture Assets will
remain viable and the divestiture of such assets will remedy the
competitive harm alleged in the Complaint. The divestitures, whether
pursuant to Section IV or Section V of this Final Judgment,
(1) shall be made to an Acquirer (or Acquirers) that, in the United
State's sole judgment, has the intent and capability (including the
necessary managerial, operation, technical, and financial capability)
of competing effectively in the provision of telecommunications
services; and
(2) shall be accomplished so as to satisfy the United States, in
its sole discretion, that none of the terms of any agreement between an
Acquirer (or Acquirers) and defendants gives defendants the ability
unreasonably to raise the Acquirer's costs, to lower the Acquier's
efficiency, or otherwise to interfere in the ability of the Acquirer to
compete effectively.
I. To the extent leases, contracts, agreements, intellectual
property rights, licenses, or other commitments with third-parties are
not assignable or transferrable without the consent of the licensor or
other third parties, defendants shall use their best efforts to obtain
those consents.
V. Appointment of Trustee
A. If defendants have not divested the Divestiture Assets within
the time period specified in Section IV(A), defendants shall notify the
United States of that fact in writing, specifically identifying the
Divestiture Assets that have not been divested. Upon application of the
United States, the Court shall appoint a trustee selected by the United
States and approved by the Court to effect the divestiture of the
Divestiture Assets.
B. After the appointment of a trustee becomes effective, only the
trustee shall have the right to sell the Divestiture Assets. The
trustees shall have the power and authority to accomplish the
divestiture to Acquirers acceptable to the United States, in its sole
judgment, at such price and on such terms as are then obtainable upon
reasonable effort by the trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections
IV, V, and VI of this Final Judgment, and shall have such other powers
as this Court deems appropriate. Subject to Section V(D) of this Final
Judgment, the trustee may hire at the cost and expense of defendants
any investment bankers, attorneys, technical experts, or other agents,
who shall be solely accountable to the trustee,
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reasonably necessary in the trustee's judgment to assist in the
divestiture.
C. Defendants shall not object to a sale by the trustee on any
ground other than the trustee's malfeasance. Any such objections by
defendants must be conveyed in writing to the United States and the
trustee within ten (10) calendar days after the trustee has provided
the notice required under Section VI.
D. The trustee shall serve at the cost and expense of defendants,
on such terms and conditions as the plaintiff approves, and shall
account for all monies derived from the sale of the assets sold by the
trustee and all costs and expenses so incurred. After approval by the
Court of the trustee's accounting, including fees for its services and
those of any professionals and agents retained by the trustee, all
remaining money shall be paid to defendants and the trust shall then be
terminated. The compensation of the trustee and any professionals and
agents retained by the trustee shall be reasonable in light of the
value of the Divestiture Assets and based on a fee arrangement
providing the trustee with an incentive based on the price and terms of
the divestiture and the speed with which it is accomplished, but
timeliness is paramount.
E. Defendants shall use their best efforts to assist the trustee in
accomplishing the required divestitures, including their best efforts
to effect all necessary regulatory or other approvals or consents and
will provide necessary representations or warranties as appropriate,
related to the sale of the Divestiture Assets. The trustee and any
consultants, accountants, attorneys, technical experts, and other
persons retained by the trustee shall have full and complete access to
the personnel, books, records, and facilities related to the
Divestiture Assets, and defendants shall develop financial and other
information relevant to the Divestiture Assets as the trustee may
reasonably request, subject to reasonable protection for trade secret
or other confidential research, development, or commercial information.
Defendants shall take no action to interfere with or to impede the
trustee's accomplishment of the divestiture.
F. After its appointment, the trustee shall file monthly reports
with the United States and the Court setting forth the trustee's
efforts to accomplish the divestiture ordered under this Final
Judgment. To the extent such reports contain information that the
trustee deems confidential, such reports shall not be filed in the
public docket of the Court. Such reports shall include the name,
address, and telephone number of each person who, during the preceding
month, made an offer to acquire, expressed an interest in acquiring,
entered into negotiations to acquire, or was contacted or made an
inquiry about acquiring, any interest in the Divestiture Assets, and
shall describe in detail each contact with any such person. The trustee
shall maintain full records of all efforts made to divest the
Divestiture Assets.
G. If the trustee has not accomplished such divestiture within six
months after its appointment, the trustee shall promptly file with the
Court a report setting forth (1) The trustee's efforts to accomplish
the required divestiture, (2) the reasons, in the trustee's judgment,
why the required divestiture has not been accomplished, and (3) the
trustee's recommendations. To the extent such reports contain
information that the trustee deems confidential, such reports shall not
be filed in the public docket of the Court. The trustee shall at the
same time furnish such report to the plaintiff who shall have the right
to make additional recommendations consistent with the purpose of the
trust. The Court thereafter shall enter such orders as it shall deem
appropriate to carry out the purpose of the Final Judgment, which may,
if necessary, include extending the trust and the term of the trustee's
appointment by a period requested by the United States.
H. In addition, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the
United States, in its sole discretion, may require defendants to
include additional assets, or allow, with the written approval of the
United States, defendants to substitute substantially similar assets,
which substantially relate to the Divestiture Assets to be divested by
the trustee to facilitate prompt divestiture to an acceptable Acquirer
or Acquirers.
VI. Notice of Proposed Divestiture
A. Within two (2) business days following execution of a definitive
divestiture agreement, defendants or the trustee, whichever is then
responsible for effecting the divestiture required herein, shall notify
the United States of any proposed divestiture required by Section IV or
V of this Final Judgment. If the trustee is responsible, it shall
similarly notify defendants. The notice shall set forth the details of
the proposed divestiture and list the name, address, and telephone
number of each person not previously identified who offered or
expressed an interest in or desire to acquire any ownership interest in
the Divestiture Assets, together with full details of the same.
B. Within fifteen (15) calendar days of receipt by the United
States of such notice, the United States may request from defendants,
the proposed Acquirer or Acquirers, any other third party, or the
trustee, if applicable, additional information concerning the proposed
divestiture, the proposed Acquirer or Acquirers, and any other
potential Acquirer. Defendants and the trustee shall furnish any
additional information requested within fifteen (15) calendar days of
the receipt of the request, unless the parties shall otherwise agree.
C. Within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt of the notice or
within twenty (20) calendar days after the United States has been
provided the additional information requested from defendants, the
proposed Acquirer or Acquirers, any third party, and the trustee,
whichever is later, the United States shall provide written notice to
defendants and the trustee, if there is one, stating whether or not it
objects to the prosed divestiture. If the United States provides
written notice that it does not object, the divestiture may be
consummated, subject only to defendants' limited right to object to the
sale under Section V(C) of this Final Judgment. Absent written notice
that the United States does not object to the proposed Acquirer or upon
objection by the United States, a divestiture proposed under Section IV
or Section V shall not be consummated. Upon objection by defendants
under Section V(C), a divestiture proposed under Section V shall not be
consummated unless approved by the Court.
VII. Financing
Defendants shall not finance all or any part of any part of any
purchase made pursuant to Section IV or V of this Final Judgment.
VIII. Preservation of Assets
Until the divestiture required by this Final Judgment has been
accomplished, defendants shall take all steps necessary to comply with
the Stipulation signed by defendants and the United States. Defendants
shall take no action that would jeopardize the divestiture ordered by
this Court.
IX. Affidavits
A. Within twenty (20) calendar days of the filing of the Complaint
in this matter, and every thirty (30) calendar days thereafter until
the divestiture has been completed under Section IV or V, defendants
shall deliver to the United States an affidavit as to the face and
manner of its compliance with Section IV or V of this Final Judgment.
Each such affidavit shall include the name, address, and telephone
number of each person who, during the preceding thirty
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(30) days, made an offer to acquire, expressed an interest in
acquiring, entered into negotiations to acquire, or was contacted or
made an inquiry about acquiring, any interest in the Divestiture
Assets, and shall describe in detail each contact with any such person
during that period. Each such affidavit shall also include a
description of the efforts defendants have taken to solicit buyers for
the Divestiture Assets, and to provide required information to
prospective Acquirers, including the limitations, if any, on such
information. Assuming the information set forth in the affidavit is
true and complete, any objection by the United States to information
provided by defendants, including limitation on information, shall be
made within fourteen (14) calendar days of the receipt of such
affidavit.
B. Within twenty (20) calendar days of the filing of the Complaint
in this matter, defendants shall deliver to the United States an
affidavit that describes in reasonable detail all actions defendants
have taken and all steps defendants have implemented on an ongoing
basis to comply with Section VIII of this Final Judgment. Defendants
shall deliver to the United States an affidavit describing any changes
to the efforts and actions outlined in defendants' earlier affidavits
filed pursuant to this section within fifteen (15) calendar days after
the change is implemented.
C. Defendants shall keep all records of all efforts made to
preserve and divest the Divestiture Assets until one year after such
divestiture has been completed.
X. Compliance Inspection
A. For the purposes of determining or securing compliance with this
Final Judgment, or of determining whether the Final Judgment should be
modified or vacated, and subject to any legally recognized privilege,
from time to time duly authorized representatives of the United States
Department of Justice, including consultants and other persons retained
by the United States, shall, upon written request of a duly authorized
representative of the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the
Antitrust Division, and on reasonable notice to defendants, be
permitted:
(1) Access during defendants' office hours to inspect and copy, or
at plaintiff's option, to require that defendants provide copies of,
all books, ledgers, accounts, records and documents in the possession,
custody, or control of defendants, relating to any matters contained in
this Final Judgment; and
(2) To interview, either informally or on the record, defendants'
officers, employees, or agents, who may have their individual counsel
present, regarding such matters. The interviews shall be subject to the
reasonable convenience of the interviewee and without restraint or
interference by defendants.
B. Upon the written request of a duly authorized representative of
the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division,
defendants shall submit written reports, under oath if requested,
relating to any of the matters contained in this Final Judgment as may
be requested.
C. No information or documents obtained by the means provided in
this section shall be divulged by the United States to any person other
than an authorized representative of the executive branch of the United
States, except in the course of legal proceedings to which the United
States is a party (including grand jury proceedings), or for the
purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment, or as
otherwise required by law.
D. If at the time information or documents are furnished by
defendants to the United States, defendants represent and identify in
writing the material in any such information or documents to which a
claim of protection may be asserted under rule 26(c)(7) of the Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure, and defendants mark each pertinent page of
such material, ``Subejct to claim of protection under rule 26(c)(7) of
the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,'' then the United States shall
give defendants ten (10) calendar days notice prior to divulging such
material in any legal proceeding (other then grand jury proceedings).
XI. No Reacquisition
Defendants may not reacquire (or lease back without the approval of
the United States, in its sole discretion) any part of the Divestiture
Assets during the term of this Final Judgment.
XII. Retention of Jurisdiction
This Court retains jurisdiction to enable any party to this Final
Judgment to apply to this Court at any time for further orders and
directions as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out or construe
this Final Judgment, to modify any of its provisions, to enforce
compliance, and to punish violations of its provisions.
XIII. Expiration of Final Judgment
Unless this Court grants an extension, this Final Judgment shall
expire ten years from the date of its entry.
XIV. Public Interest Determination
The parties have complied with the requirements of the Antitrust
Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. 16, including making copies
available to the public of this Final Judgment, the Competitive Impact
Statement, and any comments thereon and the United States' response to
comments. Based upon the record before the Court, which includes the
Competitive Impact Statement and any comments and response to comments
filed with the Court, entry of this Final Judgment is in the public
interest.
Date:
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Court approval subject to procedures of Antitrust Procedures and
Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. 16.
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United States District Judge
Appendix A
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Address City State Zip Metropolitan Area
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Renaissance Blvd..................... Oakbrook Terrace....... IL.............. 60181 Chicago.
10 N Martingale Rd................... Schaumburg............. IL.............. 60173 Chicago.
10024 Skokie Blvd.................... Skokie................. IL.............. 60077 Chicago.
11 S La Salle St..................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60603 Chicago.
1400 Waukegan Rd..................... McGaw Park............. IL.............. 60085 Chicago.
1666 E Touhy Ave..................... Des Plaines............ IL.............. 60018 Chicago.
200 Wilmot Rd........................ Deerfield.............. IL.............. 60015 Chicago.
2300 60th St......................... Kenosha................ WI.............. 53140 Chicago.
2320 N Kenmore Ave................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60614 Chicago.
243 S Wabash Ave..................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60604 Chicago.
26 W 171 Roosevelt Rd................ Wheaton................ IL.............. 60187 Chicago.
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2801 80th St......................... Kenosha................ WI.............. 53140 Chicago.
3050 Highland Pkwy................... Downers Grove.......... IL.............. 60515 Chicago.
3060 W Salt Creek Ln................. Arlington Heights...... IL.............. 60005 Chicago.
340 N Milwaukee Ave.................. Vernon Hills........... IL.............. 60061 Chicago.
50 S La Salle St..................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60603 Chicago.
600 N Rte 45......................... Libertyville........... IL.............. 60048 Chicago.
610 S Canal St....................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60607 Chicago.
610 S Maple Ave...................... Oak Park............... IL.............. 60304 Chicago.
640 N La Salle Dr.................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60610 Chicago.
7000 High Grove Blvd................. Burr Ridge............. IL.............. 60521 Chicago.
770 N Halsted St..................... Chicago................ IL.............. 60622 Chicago.
7955 S Cass Ave...................... Darien................. IL.............. 60561 Chicago.
9700 S Cass Ave...................... Argonne................ IL.............. 60439 Chicago.
10935 Estate Ln...................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75238 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1145 Empire Central Pl............... Dallas................. TX.............. 75247 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1233 Regal Row....................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75247 Dallas-Fort Worth.
12750 Merit Dr....................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75251 Dallas-Fort Worth.
12800 Abrams Rd...................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75243 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1330 River Bend Rd................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75247 Dallas-Fort Worth.
13510 N Central Expy................. Dallas................. TX.............. 75243 Dallas-Fort Worth.
13536 N Central Expy................. Dallas................. TX.............. 75243 Dallas-Fort Worth.
13725 Montfort Dr.................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75240 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1508 E Mockingbird Ln................ Dallas................. TX.............. 75214 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1701 N Greenville Ave................ Richardson............. TX.............. 75081 Dallas-Fort Worth.
1900 S Central Expy.................. Dallas................. TX.............. 75215 Dallas-Fort Worth.
2220 Campbell Creek Blvd............. Richardson............. TX.............. 75082 Dallas-Fort Worth.
2280 Greenville Ave.................. Dallas................. TX.............. 75206 Dallas-Fort Worth.
2534 Royal Ln........................ Dallas................. TX.............. 75229 Dallas-Fort Worth.
2735 N Stemmons Freeway.............. Dallas................. TX.............. 75207 Dallas-Fort Worth.
3890 W Northwest Hwy................. Dallas................. TX.............. 75220 Dallas-Fort Worth.
3911 Sthwy 12 Loop................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75236 Dallas-Fort Worth.
3939 Valley View..................... Farmers Branch......... TX.............. 75244 Dallas-Fort Worth.
4001 Airport Frwy Rt 59..... For Worth.............. TX.............. 76117 Dallas-Fort Worth.
4201 Spring Valley Rd................ Dallas................. TX.............. 75244 Dallas-Fort Worth.
4849 W Illinois...................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75211 Dallas-Fort Worth.
6011 Lemmon Ave...................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75209 Dallas-Fort Worth.
7517 Campbell Rd..................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75248 Dallas-Fort Worth.
7834 C F Hawn Fwy.................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75217 Dallas-Fort Worth.
7920 Belt Line Rd.................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75254 Dallas-Fort Worth.
801 Main St.......................... Dallas................. TX.............. 75202 Dallas-Fort Worth.
12225 Stephens Rd.................... Warren................. MI.............. 48089 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
12345 Nine Mile...................... Warren................. MI.............. 48090 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
1235 E Big Beaver Rd................. Troy................... MI.............. 48083 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
18101 Oakwood Blvd................... Dearborn............... MI.............. 48120 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
20 Oak Hollow St..................... Southfield............. MI.............. 48034 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
201 W Fort St........................ Detroit................ MI.............. 48226 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
2050 Auburn Rd....................... Auburn Hills........... MI.............. 48326 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
25400 Denso.......................... Southfield............. MI.............. 48034 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
26400 Southfield Rd.................. Lathrup Village........ MI.............. 48076 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
26600 Telegraph Rd................... Southfield............. MI.............. 48034 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
27500 Drake Rd....................... Farmington Hills....... MI.............. 48331 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
29129 Ecorse Rd...................... Romulus................ MI.............. 48174 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
32991 Hamilton Ct E.................. Farmington Hills....... MI.............. 48334 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
3800 Howard Rd....................... Farmington Hills....... MI.............. 48331 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
38281 Schoolcraft Rd................. Livonia................ MI.............. 48150 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
3937 Campus Dr....................... Pontiac................ MI.............. 48341 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
40 Oak Hollow St..................... Southfield............. MI.............. 48034 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
500 Griswold St...................... Detroit................ MI.............. 48236 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
500 Kirts Rd......................... Troy................... MI.............. 48088 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
500 Renaissance Ctr.................. Detroit................ MI.............. 48243 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
911 W Big Beaver Rd.................. Troy................... MI.............. 48084 Detroit-Ann Arbor.
1 Atlantic St........................ Bridgeport............. CT.............. 06604 Hartford-New-Haven.
10 Univac Ln......................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
102 Addison Rd....................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
121 Wawarme St....................... Hartford............... CT.............. 06114 Hartford-New-Haven.
125 Powder Forest Dr................. Simsbury............... CT.............. 06089 Hartford-New-Haven.
199 Benson Rd........................ Middlebury............. CT.............. 06762 Hartford-New-Haven.
20 Old Windsor Rd.................... Bloomfield............. CT.............. 06002 Hartford-New-Haven.
200 Grove St......................... New Haven.............. CT.............. 06511 Hartford-New-Haven.
2000 Day Hill Rd..................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
3 Waterside Xing..................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
300 Kensington Ave................... New Britain............ CT.............. 06051 Hartford-New-Haven.
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32 Valley St......................... Bristol................ CT.............. 06010 Hartford-New-Haven.
45 Glover Ave........................ Norwalk................ CT.............. 06850 Hartford-New-Haven.
500 Day Hill Rd...................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
550 Marshall Phelps Rd............... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
7 Waterside Xing..................... Windsor................ CT.............. 06095 Hartford-New-Haven.
71 Deerfield Ln...................... Meriden................ CT.............. 06450 Hartford-New-Haven.
11313 US Pkwy........................ Fishers................ IN.............. 46038 Indianapolis.
1481 W 10th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46202 Indianapolis.
1600 Albany St....................... Beech Grove............ IN.............. 46107 Indianapolis.
1800 N Meridian St................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46202 Indianapolis.
200 W 103rd St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46280 Indianapolis.
250N Shadeland Ave................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46219 Indianapolis.
302 S State Ave...................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46201 Indianapolis.
307 Sthwy 37......................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46204 Indianapolis.
3120 N Post Rd....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46226 Indianapolis.
3210 E 96th St....................... Carmel................. IN.............. 46240 Indianapolis.
3266 N Meridian St................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46208 Indianapolis.
3308 N Mitthoeffer Rd................ Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46236 Indianapolis.
402 Kentucky Ave..................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46225 Indianapolis.
4550 Victory Ln...................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46203 Indianapolis.
46 E Ohio St......................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46204 Indianapolis.
4880 Century Plaza Rd................ Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46254 Indianapolis.
4919 W 78th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
5000 W 86th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
5380 W 81St.......................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
5520 W 76th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46204 Indianapolis.
5804 Churchman Byp................... Beech Grove............ IN.............. 46203 Indianapolis.
5940 W Raymond St.................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46241 Indianapolis.
6270 Corporate Dr.................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46278 Indianapolis.
6612 E 75th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46250 Indianapolis.
6640 Parkdale Pl..................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 45254 Indianapolis.
6666 E 75th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46250 Indianapolis.
6810 N Shadeland Ave................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46220 Indianapolis.
6850 Parkdale Pl..................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46254 Indianapolis.
700 W 16th St........................ Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46202 Indianapolis.
7240 Shadeland Station Way........... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46256 Indianapolis.
7301 Woodland Dr..................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46278 Indianapolis.
7444 Shadeland Station Way........... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46256 Indianapolis.
7445 Company Dr...................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46237 Indianapolis.
755 E Main St........................ Greenwood.............. IN.............. 46143 Indianapolis.
8101 Clearvista Pkwy................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46256 Indianapolis.
8111 S Emerson Ave................... Indianapolis........... ................ 46237 Indianapolis.
8320 Allison Point Trl............... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46250 Indianapolis.
8450 Northwest Blvd.................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46278 Indianapolis.
8555 River Rd........................ Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46240 Indianapolis.
8600 Allisonville Rd................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46250 Indianapolis.
8600 Roberts Dr N.................... Fishers................ IN.............. 46038 Indianapolis.
8650 Commerce Park Pl................ Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
8677 Logo 7 Ct....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46219 Indianapolis.
8802 N Meridan St.................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46260 Indianapolis.
8820 S Meridan St.................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46217 Indianapolis.
8868 E 56th St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46216 Indianapolis.
8940 Vincennes Cir................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
9100 Purdue Rd....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46268 Indianapolis.
941 N Meridan St..................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46204 Indianapolis.
9601 E 21st St....................... Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46229 Indianapolis.
9650 E Washington St................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46229 Indianapolis.
9660 E Washington St................. Indianapolis........... IN.............. 46229 Indianapolis.
9704 Beaumont Rd..................... Ft. Benjamin Harrison.. IN.............. 46216 Indianapolis.
1 Royal Way.......................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64129 Kansas City.
1 Ward Pkwy.......................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64112 Kansas City.
1000 Carondelet Dr................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64114 Kansas City.
1000 Walnut St....................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64106 Kansas City.
10236 Marion Park Dr................. Kansas City............ MO.............. 64137 Kansas City.
104 W 42nd St........................ Kansas City............ MO.............. 64105 Kansas City.
10500 Barkley St..................... Overland Park.......... KS.............. 66212 Kansas City.
10525 N Ambassador Dr................ Kansas City............ MO.............. 64153 Kansas City.
10561 Barkley St..................... Overland Park.......... KS.............. 66212 Kansas City.
10910 W 87th St...................... Lenexa................. KS.............. 66214 Kansas City.
10930 N Pomona St.................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64153 Kansas City.
1100 Rockhurst Rd.................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64110 Kansas City.
11020 N Ambassador Dr................ Kansas City............ MO.............. 64152 Kansas City.
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112 W 9th St......................... Kansas City............ MO.............. 64105 Kansas City.
11221 Roe Ave........................ Leawood................ KS.............. 66211 Kansas City.
11401 Lamar.......................... Overland Park.......... KS.............. 66211 Kansas City.
11600 College Blvd................... Overland Park.......... KS.............. 66103 Kansas City.
12076 W Santa Fe Dr.................. Lenexa................. KS.............. 66215 Kansas City.
12851 Foster St...................... Overland Park.......... KS.............. 66213 Kansas City.
12900 Foster St...