Freer rein on A.T.&T. is proposed; the F.C.C. endorses easier rate changes for big customers

Article Abstract:

The FCC takes the first steps towards partially deregulating the long-distance market, a move that will allow AT&T to compete on a more equitable basis with smaller companies. The FCC's proposal, which is expected to be adopted after a public review period, will give AT&T a freer hand in cutting or raising rates and offering additional services for large business customers. The proposal would reduce the length of time AT&T must give as notice of a rate change, from 14 days to one day, and the company will no longer need to divulge information and cost data for rate changes. Regulations on the company's residential and small business service will not change until at least until 1992. As a conciliatory move to other long-distance carriers, the commission also proposes deregulating toll-free 800 numbers.

Deregulation, Market share

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Easier rules for A.T.&T. suggested

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The FCC iis considering relaxing restrictions placed on AT&T following the 1984 breakup. FCC Chmn Alfred C. Sikes recently told a gathering of reporters that the long-distance market had become sufficiently competitive to consider removing the restrictions. Sikes said the aggressive smaller long-distance carriers were now strong enough to compete fairly for market share. Sikes expressed concern that long term regulation might do permanent harm to the company. No specifics were discussed, but one FCC source says regulations preventing AT and T from offering discounts to its large customers might be the first to go. Predictably a representative of the smaller carriers expressed concern that deregulation would allow AT&T to harm smaller companies.

Services, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Telecommunications Services Industry, Sikes, Alfred

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F.C.C. proposes new rules that ease curbs on A.T.&T

Article Abstract:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) releases a proposal to loosen regulations on the American Telephone & Telegraph Co (AT&T). Proposed rules are likely to make competition even more fierce in a market that is already fiercely competitive. The FCC decided on Mar 8, 1990 that the market for interstate telephone services offered to large customers had become competitive after AT&T's divestiture of local companies in 1984. Now, new rules would allow AT&T to introduce new prices and services quickly for big customers and bargain individually with the customers instead of offering similar deals for all. These rules would affect large customers such as corporations, universities and state governments but not residential customers.

Telecommunications, Pricing Policy

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