LANSING, September 27.   The Michigan Public Service Commission today 
approved Verizon Systems' application to provide potential customers with desired 
service by extending the boundary of its Fitchburg Exchange to include a portion 
of Ameritech Michigan's Leslie Exchange.  The Commission concluded that approving 
Verizon's August 22, 2001 application was in the public interest.  Ameritech Michigan 
will continue to offer service in the Leslie Exchange.

	Verizon is headquartered in New York, New York and provides local telephone 
service to about 786,000 Michigan customers.

	Ameritech Michigan is a subsidiary of SBC Communication, headquartered in 
San Antonio, Texas. 

	The MPSC is an agency within the Department of Consumer and Industry Services.



Case No.  U-13055
September 27, 2001
(MPSC approves Verizon Systems' Fitchburg Exchange boundary extension)