>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:

>>>>Does AT&T provide LEC service in Illinois?

>>>Yes. But their phone book publishing subsidiary doesn't publish the
>>>phone books. Reuben H. Donnelley is the business listings publisher
>>>and the directories are a joint venture.

>>Do you know where in Illinois AT&T provides LEC service?  I presume it
>>was not Ameritech territory.  One, or more, independents?

> Can you please be more specific with your question: ILEC or CLEC?
> Post-divestiture AT&T or SBC-renamed-AT&T?

> Illinois Bell/Ameritech/SBC was the ILEC in nearly all of Chicago and
> suburbs and major downstate cities like Rockford, Springfield, some of the
> Illinois side of the Quad Cities, and a lot of the Illinois side of the
> St. Louis metropolitan area.

> Post-divestiture AT&T was a CLEC when it was in the cable tv business, but
> those customers are now Comcast subscribers. AT&T was also a CLEC unrelated
> to cable television, apparently in non-cable areas, but I don't know what
> period that was in.

> But CLECs don't have telephone book publishing subsidiaries for the
> communities they serve, so I'm lost on what you are getting at.