Consumer Telecommunications Services Act of 1989

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Consumer Telecommunications Services Act of 1989 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize a telephone operating company or its affiliate to: (1) provide information services, including electronic publishing; and (2) manufacture and provide telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment, notwithstanding any current restriction or obligation imposed by antitrust laws on the lines-of-business in which a telephone operating company or its affiliates may engage. Prohibits any telephone operating company (TOC) or its affiliate which is engaged in the provision of information services from failing to provide: (1) to other information service providers, opportunities for interconnection (for information services) to the telephone exchange facilities of such company which are comparable and which comply with all necessary regulations prescribed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); or (2) common carriage for the delivery of information services. States that any common carriage regulations prescribed by the FCC shall not relieve a TOC of the obligation to comply with certain orders or any additional regulations prescribed by the FCC concerning open network…