Editing Kingsbury Commitment (section)

{{short description|United States telecommunication anti-trust proceeding}}

The '''Kingsbury Commitment''' is a 1913 out-of-court settlement of the United States government's antitrust challenge against the [[American Telephone and Telegraph Company]] (AT&T) for the company's then-growing [[vertical monopoly]] in the [[telecommunications industry]]. In return for the government's agreement not to pursue legal action against the company as a monopolist, AT&T agreed to divest the controlling interest it had acquired in the Western Union Telegraph Company, and to allow non-competing independent telephone companies to [[Interconnection|interconnect]] with the AT&T long-distance network.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html |title=Milestones in AT&T History |access-date=2011-10-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928163604/http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html |archive-date=2008-09-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref>