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AC&T files suit against MCI, claiming unfair telemarketing

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AT and T is suing MCI Communications Corp. and Pioneer Teletechnologies Inc, its telemarketing affiliate, for unfair telemarketing practices. AT and T claims that the two misled long-distance customers and switched some of AT and T's customers without the customers' consent. The FCC allows customers to choose their long-distance company with only an oral notification. AT and T claims that more than 10 percent of their former residential long-distance customers say they were switched without their consent. AT and T requests that the FCC require written authorization in all customer carrier changes. AT and T controls about 70 percent of the long distance market, a decline of almost 20 percent since 1984. AT and T and MCI are countersuing each other over what they believe are false advertising claims.

Business services, not elsewhere classified, Unfair competition (Commerce), Unfair competition, Telemarketing, Telephone systems, Telecommunications, Telephone System, Legal Issues, Telecommunications Industry, Pioneer TeleTechnologies Inc.

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MCI and BT set a counterstrike against AT&T; firms are believed forming an alliance to include big stake in MCI for BT

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MCI Communications Corp will work with British Telecommunications PLC in an alliance that will probably involve a large investment by BT in MCI. BT is the United Kingdom's biggest telephone company, and MCI is the second-largest long-distance carrier in the US. The BT-MCI agreement will exacerbate competition because both BT and AT&T aim to provide international communications for multinational customers worldwide. Regulations prohibit foreign companies from owning more than 25 percent of a US carrier, and MCI's stock closed at $52.75 on Jun 1, 1993. At that price, a 25 percent investment in MCI would cost BT $3.47 billion. In the week of May 24, AT&T announced plans to ally with various international carriers in Asia and possibly in Europe.

Planning, Telephone companies, Investments, British Telecommunications PLC, International markets, International communication, Industry Analysis, Competition, Telephone Company, Cooperative Agreements, Foreign Competition, International Communications, World Market

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AT&T sues MCI, Sprint and WilTel in a rate dispute

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AT and T files lawsuits in federal court against rival long-distance telephone service providers Sprint Corp, MCI Communications Corp and Williams Telecommunications Group Inc. AT and T seeks damages it claims it sustained because the three rivals did not make their rates public by filing tariffs with the Federal Communications Commission. The lawsuits follow a Nov 1992 federal appeals court decision that ended the exemption of AT and T's competitors on filing their rates with the FCC. Part of the decision required the FCC to consider whether AT and T should be awarded damages. The three defendants say AT and T's suits are designed to stifle competition.

Electronic computers, Computer related services, not elsewhere classified, Holding companies, not elsewhere classified, Laws, regulations and rules, Prices and rates, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Long distance telephone services, Sprint Corp., Long-distance telephone service, Price, Williams Telecommunications Group Inc.

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