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On February 20, 2003, the members of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), met in Washington D.C. and passed several new laws to change local competition for the telephone and cable television markets. These changes reflect the new direction the FCC intends on going—one which promises to shed light onto new waves of opposition for incumbent local exchange companies (ILECs), and hopefully begin a snowball effect that will start many new competing companies. “AT&T Corp., WorldCom Inc. and other companies have taken advantage of the rules to sell local phone service to more than 10 million customers nationwide. By bundling local and long-distance services into aggressively priced packages, they have forced the Bells to drop prices in some states,” notes an unauthorized article in the February 20, 2003 issue of the Washington Post. This is exactly the type of “anti-competitive” notion the FCC has been on a quest to stop every since the divestiture of AT&T in 1984. But how exactly did the FCC plan to prevent, among other anomalies, price discrimination, misrepresentation, and unjustified raising this past February? The answer lies in the rule changes involving technology and line-sharing that it imposed recently.