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 action affiliated organization agency amended anticompetitive antitrust laws areas AT&T basic believe Bell Labs Bell System bill BROYHILL Chairman RODINO changes charges Commission's common carrier Communications Act communications services competitors Congress corporation costs court cross-subsidization customers data processing Deerlin Department of Justice deregulation divestiture dominant carrier effective competition enactment entity established FCC 2d Federal Communications Commission fully separated subsidiary GELLER going hearings industry inserting in lieu interconnection interest interexchange intraexchange carrier issues jurisdiction legislation lieu thereof litigation LITVACK manufacturing marketplace McCLORY MCGOWAN ment monopoly offered operating pending problem proposed question radio rates regulated carrier require revenues safeguards Satellite Satellite Business Systems section 214 SEIBERLING services or facilities structure Subcommittee tariff telecommunica telecommunications service telephone companies telephone service terminal equipment Thank tion transitional joint board transmission TRIENENS unregulated VOLKMER Western Electric
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Page 279 - ... act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful...
Page 275 - 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 283 - ... 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 308 - 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 280 - Act over or by means of such additional or extended line of railroad, unless and until there shall first have been obtained from the Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require the construction, or operation, or construction and operation, of such additional or extended line...
Page 276 - 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 278 - Commission finds that the same does or will exist, and shall not thereafter publish, demand, or collect any charge other than the charge so prescribed, or in excess of the maximum or less than the minimum so prescribed, as the case may be, and shall adopt the classification and shall conform to and observe the regulation or practice so prescribed.
Page 279 - ... 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 280 - ... attach to the issuance of the certificate such terms and conditions as in its judgment the public convenience and necessity may require.
Page 277 - No change shall be made in the charges, classifications, regulations, or practices which have been so filed and published except after thirty days' notice to the Commission and to the public, which shall be published in such form and contain such information as the Commission may by regulations prescribe...