Impact of Changes in the Telecommunications Industry on Small Business: Hearing Before the Special Task Force on the Impact of Telephone Costs of the Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 |
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access charge plan access lines allocation AT&T AT&T COMMUNICATIONS AT&T INFORMATION SYSTEMS AT&T-IS average Bell System BellSouth bill Bob Stanley BOCS business customers bypass carrier common line Commission's common carrier company's competition consumers CPCS decision divestiture economic end user charges end-user charges equipment FCC's Federal Federal Communications Commission high cost assistance impact implementation income interexchange carriers interstate rate intrastate issue JIM COOPER Joint Board long-distance measured service month monthly Non-chargeable NUMBER OF COMPLAINTS operating companies optional pay stations percent phone companies pricing problem Rate Base rate of return reduce regional holding companies regulators regulatory revenue requirement rural areas rural telephone small business South Central Bell subscriber line charges subsidy tariff task force telecommunications telephone companies telephone service telephone system Tennessee termination charges test calls toll rates Total number TWTA universal service usage Utility Wisconsin Wisconsin Bell WYDEN
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Page 946 - Interested carrier or carriers to keep accurate account In detail of all amounts received by reason of such increase, specifying by whom and In whose behalf such amounts are paid, and upon completion of the hearing and decision may by further order require the Interested carrier or carriers to refund, with Interest, to the persons In whose behalf such amounts were paid, such portion of such Increased rates or charges as by its decision shall be found not Justified.
Page 946 - If the proceeding has not been concluded and an order made within the period of suspension, the proposed change of rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of such period...
Page 191 - For the purposes of this Act, a small-business concern shall be deemed to be one which is independently owned and operated and which is not dominant in its field of operation.
Page 658 - ... radio communication, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the "Federal Communications Commission," which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act.
Page 946 - ... found not justified. At any hearing involving a rate or charge sought to be increased, the burden of proof to show that the increased rate or charge is just and reasonable shall be upon the natural-gas company, and the Commission shall give to the hearing and decision of such questions preference over other questions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as possible.
Page 946 - ... (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Commission may allow part of a charge, classification, regulation, or practice to go into effect, based upon a written showing by the carrier or carriers affected, and an opportunity for written comment thereon by affected persons, that such partial authorization is just, fair, and reasonable. Additionally, or in combination with a partial authorization, the Commission, upon a similar showing...
Page 930 - It shall be unlawful for any common carrier to make any unjust or unreasonable discrimination in charges, practices, classifications, regulations, facilities, or services for or in connection with like communication service, directly or indirectly, by any means or device, or to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, class of persons, or locality, or to...
Page 946 - ... after full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.
Page 946 - ... complaint, upon reasonable notice, enter upon a hearing concerning the lawfulness thereof; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon, the Commission, upon delivering to the carrier or carriers affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such charge, classification, regulation, or practice, in whole or in part...
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