For a long time, Western Electric held a sizable interest in Northern Electric, which supplied Bell Canada, as well as some of the Canadian independents. In 1956, however, a landmark court decision, the 1956 Consent Decree/Final Judgment of the 1949 antitrust suit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice forced AT&T to divest itself of its Canadian holdings, including Northern Electric. As a result, Northern Electric gradually began producing more and more original designs of their own, although they continued producing the basic Princess design for quite some time. HELP ME BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THIS.
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