Telecommunications in Transition: The Status of Competition in the Telecommunications Industry : a ReportU.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 435 pages |
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47 C.F.R. section affiliates allocation alternatives areas AT&T Bell System Bell's broadcast cable service cable systems cable television channels Chart Commission Commission's common carrier communications competitors costs customers decision deregulation distribution Docket domestic dominant economic entry existing facilities FCC Network Study FCC's Federal Communications Commission firms Home Box Office increase installed interconnection interstate level of competition long distance market power market share marketplace ment microwave million monopoly offer operating companies outlets over-the-air ownership pay cable percent private line programming radio stations rates regulation regulatory Report and Order requirements residential revenues rules satellite scarcity scarcity rents signals Source specialized carriers Subcommittee on Telecommunications subscribers suppliers supply supra switching tariffs tele telecommunications telephone companies television stations terminal equipment tion toll traditional carriers transmission users WATS Western Electric Western Union
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Page 10 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 17 - No corporation shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital and no corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of...
Page 171 - No person shall use or operate any apparatus for the transmission of energy or communications or signals by radio...
Page 18 - United States v. Aluminum Co. of America, 148 F.2d 416 (2d Cir. 1945); and United States v. United Shoe Machinery Corp.. 110 F. Supp. 295 (D. Mass. 1953), aff'd per curiam, 347 US 521 (1954). • See Posner, "A Statistical Study of Antitrust Enforcement," 13 Journal of Law & Economics (1970), pp.
Page 189 - Congress moved under the spur of a widespread fear that in the absence of governmental control the public interest might be subordinated to monopolistic domination in the broadcasting field.
Page 54 - We find that: there is a public need and demand for the proposed facilities and services and for new and diverse sources of supply, competition in the specialized communications field is reasonably feasible, there are grounds for a reasonable expectation that new entry will have some beneficial effects, and there is no reason to anticipate that new entry would have any adverse impact on service to the public by existing carriers such as to outweigh the considerations supporting new entry. We further...
Page 194 - Simply stated, the fundamental purpose of this facet of the multiple ownership rules is to promote diversification of ownership in order to maximize diversification of program and service viewpoints as well as to prevent any undue concentration of economic power contrary to the public interest.
Page 18 - The boundaries of such a submarket may be determined by examining such practical indicia as industry or public recognition of the submarket as a separate economic entity, the product's peculiar characteristics and uses, unique production facilities, distinct customers, distinct prices, sensitivity to price changes, and specialized vendors.
Page 303 - Complainants also request specific issues with respect to whether such tariffs have been in violation of sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act (15 USC 1 et seq.) but we decline to do so for two reasons.
Page 54 - ... they will replace. The result is a series of Bell tariffs, all of which the Commission finds unlawful but which customers must pay. Refunds cannot be made, despite the accounting order, because we have no legal tariff with which to compare and compute any overcharges. The Commission, therefore, has essentially lost control over the rates Bell charges customers ... The 'significant costs of regulatory delay' take the form of virtually unregulated rates for a major service.