Modified Final Judgment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session ... December 10 and 11, 1987, 1. daļaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - 151 lappuses |
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ability allowed American anticompetitive antitrust laws areas AT&T Bell Atlantic Bell Companies Bell Operating Companies Bell System BellSouth benefits billing BOC's BOCs bottleneck business injunctions Chairman Communications compete competition competitors CompuServe CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consent decree consumers cost cross-subsidization customers Decree's DEMAEYER DEMUTH Department of Justice discrimination divestiture electronic publishing equal access equipment market FCC's gateway Greene's industry information providers information service providers information services restriction interexchange carriers interexchange services issue Judge Greene LEVETOWN LIBRARY OF CONGRESS line of business long distance market long distance service ment Minitel Modification of Final percent prevent proposed ratepayers rates RBOCs regional companies Regional Holding Companies regulation regulatory RHCs Senator INOUYE Senator PACKWOOD September 10 Opinion SNEDAKER Sprint statement Subcommittee sumer Supp telecommunications equipment telephone companies telephone service tion transmission U.S. WEST United users Western Electric ZEGLIS
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138. lappuse - regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
52. lappuse - BOC that there is no substantial possibility that it could use its monopoly power to impede competition in the market it seeks to enter.
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9. lappuse - Amendment of Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations, Second Computer Inquiry...
5. lappuse - BOCs to provide customer premises equipment to their customers below cost or without regard to cost, and it permitted Western Electric sales to the BOCs themselves at below-cost prices when necessary to assure that Western Electric products would be selected. Specifically, the Department and others charged that the product design and development expenses of Western Electric had been misallocated to the systems engineering and research functions that were funded by the BOCs' payments to AT&T under...
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5. lappuse - United States v. AT&T. 524 F. Supp. 1336, 1372 (DDC 1981). This headstart allegedly assured that Western Electric would have the only products on the market that met the BOCs' requirements, such that the product could be purchased at inflated prices, and regulatory authorities would have no realistic alternative to passing these inflated prices through to ratepayers. See August 16, 1981, DOJ Memorandum, pp. 49-51; Competitive Impact Statement, pp. 15, 40-42. Second, the Department claimed that the...
6. lappuse - BOCs' local exchanges to such "essential facilities" as the stadium in Hecht v. Pro-Football. Inc.. 570 F.2d 982 (DC Cir. 1977), cert denied. 436 US 956 (1978); the warehouse in Gamco, Inc.
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