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AT&T; doesn’t have to share certain technology.

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U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene, who ordered the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph, ruled that AT&T; does not have to share its sophisticated 800 data base with competitors. Greene turned down a request from the Justice Department asking that portions of AT&T;’s Common Channel Interoffice Signaling data be made available to other phone companies, new and old, until they can develop their own systems.

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