The Justice Department’s antitrust division announced that...

The Justice Department’s antitrust division announced that it is establishing a task force to help enforce the AT&T; consent decree, which split AT&T; into seven regional holding companies and restricted the types of businesses the Bell operating companies could engage in. Charles Rule, assistant attorney general for the division, said the task force will “augment” current work on investigations and litigations. He said there have been “a number of complaints for quite a while.” Constance Robinson, assistant chief for litigation of the antitrust division’s Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section, will direct the task force.