CenturyLink pays to settle federal allegations that it broke antitrust deal in Boise, Idaho

The internet and landline-phone service provider CenturyLink Inc. settled with the Department of Justice over allegations that it had engaged in anticompetitive business practices in the Boise area arising from its 2017 acquisition of Level 3 Communications.

The acquisition gave CenturyLink an additional 200,000 miles of fiber-optic networks, allowing it to control 70% of the connections between buildings and fiber optic lines from Boise to Nampa. That violated federal antitrust laws.

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It’s well known that the Federal Communications Commission’s Form 477 data, which helps direct billions of dollars, overestimates high-speed Internet access.

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“What the FCC says is, if you can serve one person in a census block, that means you’re serving everybody in the census block.”