Telecommunications Act of 1980: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6121 ... September 9 and 16, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 803 pages |
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1956 consent decree activities affiliated organization amended anticompetitive antitrust laws areas AT&T basic believe Bell Labs Bell System bill Chairman RODINO changes Commission's common carrier Communications Act communications services competitors Congress corporate costs court cross-subsidization customers data processing Deerlin Department of Justice deregulation divestiture dominant carrier enactment entity established FCC 2d Federal Communications Commission fully separated subsidiary GELLER hearings industry inserting in lieu interconnection interest interexchange intraexchange carrier issues jurisdiction legislation Lionel Van Deerlin litigation LITVACK manufacturing marketplace mass media MCGOWAN ment monopoly offered operating paragraph problems proposed question radio rates redesignated in section regulated carrier regulatory authority revenues safeguards satellite Satellite Business Systems section 214 SEIBERLING services or facilities structure Subcommittee submarket tariff tele telecommunica telecommunications service telephone companies telephone service terminal equipment tion transitional joint board transmission TRIENENS unregulated VOLKMER Western Electric
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Page 277 - ... nothing in this Act contained shall in any way abridge or alter the remedies now existing at common law or by statute, but the provisions of this Act are in addition to such remedies...
Page 273 - ... such common carrier shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation...
Page 304 - Secretary or his delegate may distribute, apportion, or allocate gross Income, deductions, credits, or allowances between or among such organizations, trades, or businesses. if he determines that such distribution, apportionment, or allocation is necessary In order to prevent evasion of taxes or clearly to reflect the Income of any of such organizations, trades, or businesses.
Page 270 - Act, may be classified into day, night, repeated, unrepeated, letter, commercial, press, government, and such other classes as are just and reasonable, and different rates may be charged for the different classes of messages...
Page 273 - If such carrier shall not satisfy the complaint within the time specified, or there shall appear to be any reasonable ground for investigating said complaint, it shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.
Page 273 - ... act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful...
Page 269 - ... the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, for the purpose of promoting safety of life and property through the use of wire and radio communication...
Page 269 - 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, nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 272 - Interested public utility or public utilities 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...
Page 273 - That any person or persons claiming to be damaged by any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act may either make complaint to the Commission as hereinafter provided for, or may bring suit in his or their own behalf for the recovery of the damages for which such common carrier may be liable under the provisions of this act, in any district or circuit court of the United States of competent jurisdiction...