Prime Brings Charges Against AT&T to Justice Department

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BOSTON — Prime Communications has asked the Department of Justice to investigate charges it brought against AT&T Broadband last fall.

In November, the Wakefield, Mass., advertising and media shop launched a $20 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston against AT&T Broadband, the country’s largest cable television company, alleging unfair business practices and monopolization.The complaint asserted AT&T rejected paid advertising that Prime had attempted to place on stations carried by AT&T, the dominant cable service in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire.

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