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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Page 1025 - 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...
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Page 199 - 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 708 - ... 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 1025 - 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 subject any particular person, class of persons, or locality to any undue or unreasonable prejudice...
Page 1025 - Commission, after opportunity for "hearing, finds such action necessary or desirable in the public interest, to establish physical connections with other carriers, to establish through routes and charges applicable thereto and the divisions of such charges, and to establish and provide facilities and regulations for operating such through routes.
Page 1025 - Provided further, That nothing in this Act or in any other provision of law shall prevent a common carrier subject to this Act from furnishing reports of positions of ships at sea to newspapers of general circulation, either at a nominal charge or without charge, provided the name of such common carrier is displayed along with such ship position reports. The Commissioner may prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary in the public interest to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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Page 560 - ... state regulatory agencies shall regard the public interest as requiring the preservation and promotion of the maximum level of competition in any regulated industry consistent with the other public interest goals established by the legislature. 133.02 Definitions. In this chapter: ( 1 ) "Commodity" includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise, produce and any other article of commerce.
Page 1025 - Provided further, That nothing in this chapter or in any other provision of law shall be construed to prevent a common carrier subject to this chapter...