Opinion ID: 7697
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Text: 5 Southwestern Bell Corporation (SWB) is a holding company; Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (Telephone), SWB's wholly owned subsidiary, provides telephone service to its customers in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. Telephone publishes and provides the white pages to its telephone customers. In order to publish the white pages Telephone must compile and maintain a database of names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all its customers. This compilation is known in the telecommunications world as directory listing information (DLI). 6 Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages (Yellow Pages), another wholly owned subsidiary of SWB, licenses DLI 1 from Telephone for use in publishing its classified, or yellow pages, directory. Telephone licenses DLI to independent publishers, such as Great Western and Canyon. Great Western is based in Amarillo, Texas and publishes a competing yellow pages (classified) directory in eleven cities in Texas and Oklahoma. Canyon publishes a single directory in Canyon, Texas (near Amarillo). Canyon is a niche publisher whose directory caters to local advertisers who do not need to advertise outside of their immediate geographic area.