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                                                           Before the
               FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                    Washington, D.C.  20554


In the Matter of                )
                                )
MCLEODUSA TELECOMMUNICATIONS    )
  SERVICES, INC.,               )
                                )       
                    Complainant,        )                   
                        v.                                            )    File No. E-98-44    
                                ) 
AMERITECH CORPORATION,          )       
      
                                )
                    Defendant.  )

                             ORDER
                                
   Adopted:  December 21, 1998;  Released:  December 21, 1998

By the Deputy Chief, Formal Complaints and Investigations Branch, Enforcement Division,
Common Carrier Bureau:

     1.   On December 14, 1998, McLeodUSA Telecommunications Services, Inc.
(McLeodUSA) filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss the above-captioned formal complaint against
Ameritech Corporation (Ameritech), in which McLeodUSA alleged that Ameritech's business
arrangement with Qwest Communications Corporation (Qwest) to market Qwest's interLATA
service to Ameritech's in-region customers in conjunction with Ameritech's own local and
intraLATA toll services, violated sections 271 and 251(g) of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended.  In its motion to dismiss, McLeodUSA explains that its complaint has been rendered
moot by the Commission's decision, FCC 98-242, and thus it is appropriate at this time to dismiss
the action.  Ameritech does not oppose the motion.

     2.   We are satisfied that dismissal of this complaint will serve the public interest by
eliminating the need for further litigation and the expenditure of further time and resources by the
parties and by the Commission. 

     3.   Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to sections 1, 4(i), 4(j), and 208 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  151, 154(i), 154(j), 208, and the
authority delegated in sections 0.91 and 0.291 of the Commission's rules, 47 C.F.R.  0.91,
0.291, that McLeodUSA's motion to dismiss the above-captioned formal complaint IS
GRANTED.

     4.   IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the above-captioned formal complaint IS
DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE and that this proceeding IS TERMINATED.


                              FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION



                              Diane Griffin Harmon
                              Deputy Chief, Formal Complaints and 
                                Investigations Branch
                              Enforcement Division
                              Common Carrier Bureau